bouquet

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — 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. A bouquet of circles.
  7. The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
  8. The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.

词形变化

bouquets plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bouquetlike bouquet of circles bouquet of spheres bouquets and brickbats fruit bouquet kitchen bouquet
相关词
ambush bush bouquet garni nosegay corsage posy

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *buskaz
Frankish *buskbor.
Early Medieval Latin boscus
Old French boisder.
Old French bochet
French bouquetubor.
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.
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