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noun

Posy n. (pl. posies)

A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring. "The posy of a ring."

A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay. "Bridegroom's posies." "We make a difference between suffering thistles to grow among us, and wearing them for posies."

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Etymology of 'Posy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Posy" Quotes from Famous Books

... Jinny on the sunny, wind-swept hill-top; her silk skirt carefully tucked up, and the embroidered frill of her starched white petticoat just resting on her sturdy, well-shod feet. One plump hand, in its tight kid glove, toying with her posy of roses and "old man," the other absently tapping John's discarded foot-gear. Her eyes followed the movements of the lithe young form that wandered hither and thither on the sandy expanse below; her lips were parted in a smile of ...

— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)

... maiden drew the daisies to a posy; Mild the bells of Sunday morning rang across the church-yard sod; And, helped on by tender hands, with sturdy feet all bare and rosy, Climbed his babe to mother's breast, as climbs the slow ...

— Ride to the Lady • Helen Gray Cone

... done he felt he must give it a distinctive name. He cast about for one, pondering and rejecting titles innumerable. Countless lines of poetry ran through his head, from which he sought to pick a word or two as one plucks a violet from a posy. At last a half-tender, half-whimsical look came into his face, and picking his pen out of ...

— Merely Mary Ann • Israel Zangwill

... bent of original composition, her amazing power of observation, her inexhaustible sense of humor, her absorbing interest in what she saw about her, were so strong that she needed no reinforcement of culture. It was no more in her power than it was in Wordsworth's to "gather a posy ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various

... knee and rest her curly head against his shoulder. Besides, flowers grew, even in Greenfield; there were damask roses and old-fashioned lilies enough in the square garden to have furnished a whole century of poets with similes; and in the posy-bed under the front windows were tulips of Chinese awkwardness and splendor, beds of pinks spicy as all Arabia, blue hyacinths heavy with sweetness as well as bells, "pi'nies" rubicund and rank, hearts-ease clustered ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various

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