bouquet
/buːˈkeɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.41 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An arrangement or bunch of cut flowers; a nosegay.
noun
A decoratively arranged bunch of something.
noun
The scent of a particular wine.
noun
The middle note of a perfume.
noun
A compliment or expression of praise.
noun
noun
The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *buskaz Frankish *buskbor. Early Medieval Latin boscus Old French boisder. Old French bochet French bouquetubor. English bouquet Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet, from Old French bochet, from bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. Doublet of bosket.