Bouquet

/buːˈkeɪ/ · noun

Meaning

A bunch of cut flowers..

Definitions by Sense

1. A bunch of cut flowers.
2. A decoratively arranged bunch of something.
3. The scent of a particular wine.
4. The middle note of a perfume.
5. A compliment or expression of praise.
6. (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
7. (card games) The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
8. (cartomancy) The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.

Example Sentences

For my birthday I received two bouquets.

Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.

Aunt Cass rearranged the bouquet of spoons in the little vase on the table.

This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.

The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell.

Since his early death in 1953, a cult, small and select, has grown up around him […]. This coterie maintains that Burns was a writer of near transcendent genius […] whose first novel received enormous bouquets from the critics but who was hounded to death by those same critics when they learned he was a fag.

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