What's the difference between nosegay and posy?

Nosegay


Definition:

  • (n.) A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The surgical approach involved sectioning of Riolan's nosegay.

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.

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