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A posy is a small bunch of flowers, often one you can hold in one hand and give to someone. It is smaller and simpler than a big shop bouquet. The word sounds old-fashioned and sweet: you meet it in stories, weddings, and garden talk more than in teenage chat. People still use it when they want that little old picture of a handful of flowers tied together. Though actually, it did not start as a flower word. It is a form of poesy, an old word for poetry. Long ago a posy could also mean a short verse, or a line cut inside a ring. The flower meaning grew beside that, and that is the meaning you are learning here. It is not a posse (a group of people), and it is not “.”
小花束
組成A shortened form of poesy (“poetry”). The flower meaning came later from that same word.
同家族的字
- poesyan old word for poetry; posy is a shortened form of it
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
posynoun/ˈpəʊzi/
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A flower; a small bouquet; a nosegay.
- And I will make thee beds of roses, / And a thousand fragrant posies;
- 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
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archaicA verse of poetry, especially a motto or an inscription on a ring.
- Is this a Prologue, or the Poeſie of a Ring?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。