Meaning & use
Posies
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Small bunches of flowers, typically gathered and tied together.
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The flower girls carried tiny posies of white roses down the aisle.
Children picked wild posies from the meadow to give their mothers.
A note on using this word
The word 'posy' originally referred to a short poem or motto, and only later came to mean a small bunch of flowers, perhaps one accompanied by a verse.
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