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French for nosegay.
“Mr. Disraeli was able to make a financial statement burst into a bouquet of flowers.”—McCarthy: Our Own Times, vol. iii. chap. xxx. p. 11.
The bouquet of wine, also called its nosegay, is its aroʹma.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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