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Porcelain bouquet, from c. 1760

Early Medieval Latin boscus

English bouquet

Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet, from Old French bochet, from bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. Doublet of bosket.

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.
    • 2005, Mildred M. Jeffrey, Walking the Cliffs, page 10:
      Aunt Cass rearranged the bouquet of spoons in the little vase on the table.
  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.

bunch of flowers

scent of wine

Early Medieval Latin boscus

Danish bouquet

Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet, from Old French bochet, from bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

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

  1. bouquet (scent of wine)

Early Medieval Latin boscus

Dutch bouquet

Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet, from Old French bochet, from bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

bouquet n (plural bouquets, diminutive bouquetje n)

  1. aroma, bouquet (scent of wine)

< French bouquet

bouquet

  1. bouquet (scent of wine)

Early Medieval Latin boscus

French bouquet

Inherited from Old French bochet, from bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

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)

Early Medieval Latin boscus

Italian bouquet

Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet. Doublet of boschetto.

bouquet m (invariable)

  1. bouquet (bundle of flowers)
    Synonym: mazzo
  2. bouquet (scent of wine)
    Synonym: aroma
  3. mixture of essential oils dissolved in alcohol

Early Medieval Latin boscus

Portuguese bouquet

Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet, from Old French bochet, from bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

bouquet m (plural bouquets)

  1. alternative form of buquê