(n.) The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as, a low corsage.
(n.) a flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament. Typically worn by women on special occasions (as, at a ball or an anniversary celebration), a corsage may be worn pinned to the chest, or tied to the wrist. It is usually larger or more elaborate than a boutonniere.
Example Sentences:
(1) There's a bridal gown for three- to six-year-olds, for instance, complete with a fake corsage.
(2) Not a single flower, corsage style, but an oval row, like a bower.
(3) I wore a new skirt and sweater set with a wrist corsage Mark bought me.
(4) Her professional stock-in-trade as a stage and television actress was a voice that could have made a regimental sergeant major tremble and a figure, suggesting an ample corsage filled with concrete, that wordlessly and hilariously forbade the taking of liberties.
Posy
Definition:
(n.) A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring.
(n.) A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stock isn't fantastic but I spy books by Jane Gardam and Claire Messud, David Mitchell and, er, Jordan, and it's impressive that a library so small has a section devoted to graphic novels, Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds and David Boring by Daniel Clowes in pride of place.
(2) Even without the clues sown throughout the album (Palace Posy is an anagram of apocalypse), it audibly suggests a hollowed-out landscape in the aftermath of some terrible event.
(3) Photographers will miss the sight of him regularly hoisting small children clutching posies over barriers so they can get closer to her.
(4) The three patients with posi-ive skin test had been living for a long time in the eastern part of the U.S.A. where histoplasma capsulatum occurs endemically.
(5) And although we have our magnificent Raymond Briggs, Posy Simmonds, Steve Bell and Chris Riddell, nowhere are comic-strip books so widespread as in France.
(6) Israel's president, Shimon Peres, who turned 90 last summer, laid the first of more than a dozen wreaths and then, in a touching gesture, placed a posy of brightly-coloured anemones – a flower which carpets the area in late winter – on the grave of Sharon's late wife Lily.