bouquets

Noun

bouquet (plural bouquets)

1. (collective) An arrangement or bunch of cut flowers; a nosegay.
   • For my birthday I received two bouquets.

   Synonyms:

   arrangement

2. A decoratively arranged bunch of something.
   • Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.
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.
   • 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...1977 August 20, Robert Etherington, “John Horne Burns and His Enemies”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 10
6. A bouquet of circles.

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