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单词 bouquet
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bouquetn.

/buːˈkeɪ//ˈbuːkeɪ/
Forms: Also boquet.
Etymology: < French bouquet originally ‘little wood’ cognate with Provençal bosquet , Italian boschetto diminutive of bosco wood. compare busket n.
1.
a. A bunch of flowers, a nosegay; also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > flower arrangement > bouquet
bobc1400
posya1500
poesy1565
bough-pot1585
ramilletec1620
bouquet1717
tisty-tosty1825
booky1842
bokay1847
shower bouquet1891
porte-bouquet1900
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 327 A large Bouquet of Jewels made like natural flowers.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 144 He had wrapt [paper] round the stalks of a bouquet to keep it together.
1791 T. Warton in J. Milton Poems (ed. 2) 181 Spenser has anglicised the original French word bosquet, in May, v. 10 ‘To gather May buskets and smelling breere’. If busket be not there the French bouquet, now become English.
1791 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 278 The flowers..I..had seen..tied up in one bouquet.
1836 T. Hood Coming of Age in Comic Ann. 87 No flowery garlands—no bouquet.
1880 O. W. Holmes in Scribner's Monthly 21 157 I'm a florist in verse and what would people say If I came to a banquet without my bouquet? [Cf. Fr. sense, ‘petite pièce de vers pour une fête’.]
b. figurative. A compliment, praise; to throw bouquets: to pay compliments.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > compliment > [verb (intransitive)]
to pass, pay, make, etc. a compliment1655
to throw bouquets1904
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [noun] > an instance, act, or expression of
commendation1535
good words1535
suffrage1566
commend1606
exalt1607
commendatory1641
exaltation1650
back-pat1894
cheerleading1902
rave1926
rap1939
bouquet1955
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > compliment > [noun]
complement1578
complemento1582
compliment1655
douceurs1665
bouquet1955
1904 Journalist 28 May 89 We do not wish to say ‘I told you so’, or to ‘throw any bouquets’ in our own direction.
1907 N. Munro Daft Days xxiii. 203 I've never done throwing bouquets at myself about it ever since.
1955 Times 4 May 9/6 The union would inevitably receive their share of the brickbats and bouquets.
2. The perfume exhaled from wine.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant smell > wine bouquet
bouquet1846
bloom1888
1846 French Dom. Cookery 320 Negligence in the filling of the casks..will destroy the bouquet.
c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 353/1 The perfume, or ‘bouquet,’ is something different from the odour of wine.
1873 E. Bulwer-Lytton Kenelm Chillingly II. iv. vii. 272 Lifting his glass to his lips, [he] voluptuously inhaled its bouquet.
1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 315 Bouquet is that quality of wine which salutes the nose.
3. transferred.
a. A bunch of flavouring herbs. Also bouquet garni n. [French, ‘garnished bouquet’] (see quots.).
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > herb > [noun] > bunch or mixture of herbs
fine herbs1584
ravigote1733
fines herbes?1750
bouquet1846
bouquet garni1846
1846 French Dom. Cookery 41 A garnished bouquet is when thyme, fennel, and bay are added to the parsley and onions.
1852 F. Bishop Illustr. London Cookery Bk. 408 Bouquet, a bunch of parsley and scallions tied up to put in soups, &c. Bouquet garni, or Assaisonné, the same, with the addition of cloves or aromatic herbs.
1960 Woman 3 Dec. 42 Classic ingredients of a bouquet garni are half a bay leaf, three or four long-stemmed sprigs of parsley, and a sprig of thyme.
b. A large flight of rockets, as the close of a firework display.
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the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > firework display > rockets forming part of
bouquet1879
1879 Times 2 June The great bouquet of rockets being particularly fine.
c. The flight of a multitude of pheasants breaking covert from the central point at which the beaters meet; this central spot itself.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun] > covert
covert1494
cover1719
bouquet1875
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. i. vii. §4. 104 The shooters are now collected to the spot to which all the beaters congregate, termed the bouquet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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