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English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French bouquet. Doublet of bosket.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bouquet (plural bouquets)
- A bunch of cut flowers.
- For my birthday I received two bouquets.
- A decoratively arranged bunch of something.
- Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.
- The scent of a particular wine.
- This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.
- The middle note of a perfume.
- The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell.
- 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.
- (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
- (card games) The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
- (cartomancy) The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]bunch of flowers
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scent of wine
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See also
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bouquet c (singular definite bouqueten or bouquet'en, not used in plural form)
- bouquet (scent of wine)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bouquet” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bouquet n (plural bouquets, diminutive bouquetje n)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bouquet” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bouquet
- bouquet (scent of wine)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of bouquet (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation) | |||
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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. |
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]bouquet m (plural bouquets)
- bouquet, bunch
- a set or selection of something
- a group of trees forming a grove
- aroma, bouquet (scent of wine)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Arabic: بَاقَة (bāqa)
- → Azerbaijani: buket
- → Catalan: buquet
- → Czech: buket
- → Danish: buket, bouquet
- → English: bouquet
- → Esperanto: bukedo
- → Finnish: bukee
- → German: Bouquet
- → Greek: μπουκέτο (boukéto)
- → Japanese: ブーケ (būke)
- → Macedonian: букет (buket)
- → Norwegian: bukett
- → Polish: bukiet
- → Portuguese: buquê, bouquet (unadapted form)
- → Romanian: buchet
- → Russian: буке́т (bukét)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: buqué
- → Swedish: bukett
- → Turkish: buket
Further reading
[edit]- “bouquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet.
Noun
[edit]bouquet m (plural bouquets)
- Alternative form of buquê
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