bouquet

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English

Porcelain bouquet, from c. 1760

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouquet. Doublet of bosket.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /boʊˈkeɪ/, /buːˈkeɪ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

bouquet (plural bouquets)

  1. A bunch of cut flowers.
    For my birthday I received two bouquets.
  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.
    • 1977 August 20, Robert Etherington, “John Horne Burns and His Enemies”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 10:
      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 was a fag.
  6. (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
  7. (card games) The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
  8. (cartomancy) The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouquet.

Pronunciation

Noun

bouquet c (singular definite bouqueten or bouquet'en, not used in plural form)

  1. bouquet (scent of wine)

Further reading

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouquet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buˈkɛ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: bou‧quet

Noun

bouquet n (plural bouquets, diminutive bouquetje n)

  1. aroma, bouquet (scent of wine)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • bouquet” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie.

Finnish

Etymology

< French bouquet

Pronunciation

Noun

bouquet

  1. bouquet (scent of wine)

Declension

Inflection of bouquet (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation)
nominative bouquet bouquet’t
genitive bouquet’n bouquet’iden
bouquet’itten
partitive bouquet’ta bouquet’ita
illative bouquet’hen bouquet’ihin
singular plural
nominative bouquet bouquet’t
accusative nom. bouquet bouquet’t
gen. bouquet’n
genitive bouquet’n bouquet’iden
bouquet’itten
partitive bouquet’ta bouquet’ita
inessive bouquet’ssa bouquet’issa
elative bouquet’sta bouquet’ista
illative bouquet’hen bouquet’ihin
adessive bouquet’lla bouquet’illa
ablative bouquet’lta bouquet’ilta
allative bouquet’lle bouquet’ille
essive bouquet’na bouquet’ina
translative bouquet’ksi bouquet’iksi
abessive bouquet’tta bouquet’itta
instructive bouquet’in
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of bouquet (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French bochet, from bois (woods), from Medieval Latin boscus (grove), from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (bush, thicket), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (to grow).

Pronunciation

Noun

bouquet m (plural bouquets)

  1. bouquet, bunch
  2. a set or selection of something
  3. a group of trees forming a grove
  4. aroma, bouquet (scent of wine)

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet.

Noun

bouquet m (plural bouquets)

  1. Alternative form of buquê