bouquet

Borrowed from French bouquet.

• IPA^(key): /boʊˈkeɪ/, /buˈkeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

bouquet (plural bouquets)

1. A bunch of cut flowers.

   For my birthday I received two bouquets.

2. The scent of a particular wine.

   This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.

3. A compliment or expression of praise.

   Often used in the phrase brickbats and bouquets. See also brickbat.

4. (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
5. (card games) The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
6. (cartomancy) The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.

• bouquet of circles, bouquet of spheres

• nosegay
• corsage
• posy

Borrowed from French bouquet.

• IPA^(key): /bukɛ/, [b̥uˈkʰɛ] or IPA^(key): /buke/, [b̥uˈkʰe]

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

1. bouquet (scent of wine)

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

• IPA^(key): /bu.kɛ/

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bouquet m (plural bouquets)

1. bouquet, bunch
2. a set or selection of something.
3. aroma, bouquet (scent of wine)

• “bouquet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).