Nosegay (noun) (literary)
no-s-gei
A small bunch of flowers, typically one that is sweet-scented.
Late Middle English: from nose + gay in the obsolete sense ‘ornament’.
Example sentences
“She completed the look with a nosegay on her bodice.”
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