bouquet

Borrowed from French bouquet. Doublet of bosket.

• IPA^(key): /buːˈkeɪ/, (Indic) /bʊˈkeː/

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• (spelling pronunciation) IPA^(key): /boʊˈkeɪ/, (Indic) /boˈkeː/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

bouquet (plural bouquets)

1. A bunch of cut flowers.

   For my birthday I received two bouquets.

2. A decoratively arranged bunch of something.

   Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.

   • 2005, Mildred M. Jeffrey, Walking the Cliffs, page 10:

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

3. The scent of a particular wine.

   This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.

4. The middle note of a perfume.

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

5. A compliment or expression of praise.
   • 1977 August 20, Robert Etherington, “John Horne Burns and His Enemies”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 10:

     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.

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.

• bouquet garni
• nosegay
• corsage
• posy

Borrowed from French bouquet.

• IPA^(key): /bukɛ/, [b̥uˈkʰɛ] or IPA^(key): /buke/, [b̥uˈkʰe]

bouquet c (singular definite bouqueten or bouquet'en, not used in plural form)

1. bouquet (scent of wine)

• buket

• “bouquet” in Den Danske Ordbog

• boeket

Borrowed from French bouquet.

• IPA^(key): /buˈkɛ/

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• Hyphenation: bou‧quet

bouquet n (plural bouquets, diminutive bouquetje n)

1. aroma, bouquet (scent of wine)

• bouquet garni
• bouquetreeks
• bouquetroman

• “bouquet” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

< French bouquet

• IPA^(key): /ˈbukeː/, [ˈbuk̟e̞ː]
• IPA^(key): /buˈkeː/
• Rhymes: -ukeː

bouquet

1. bouquet (scent of wine)

Inherited from Old French bochet, from bois (“woods”), from Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”).

• IPA^(key): /bu.kɛ/

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bouquet m (plural bouquets)

1. bouquet, bunch
2. a set or selection of something
3. a group of trees forming a grove
4. aroma, bouquet (scent of wine)

• bouquet garni

• “bouquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet.

bouquet m (plural bouquets)

1. alternative form of buquê