posy in English

noun
1
a small bunch of flowers.
Both children received a special cup, as well as a posy of flowers for the princess and a buttonhole for the prince.
synonyms:bouquetbunch (of flowers)spraynosegaycorsageboutonniere
2
a short motto or line of verse inscribed inside a ring.
adjective
1
(of a person or their behavior) affected and attempting to impress others; pretentious.
That's what you get when you try to dress up all posey , I suppose.

Use "posy" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "posy" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "posy", or refer to the context using the word "posy" in the English Dictionary.

1. Heartsease makes a sweet Victorian posy.

2. Then to the florists, you deserve a posy.

3. Academia vigorous a research campaign because of the important bronzes " posy. "

4. Secondly, oracle and posy are the earliest fonts we could see at present.

5. Martina carried a posy and Claire a basket of similar flowers to the bride.

6. Posy Simmonds' whimsical humour comes as a welcome relief in a medium that is surprisingly low on laughs.

7. Posy is a young, ambitious ballerina who is taken under the wing of a prestigious dance academy.

8. But instead of finding it overgrown with weeds, a pretty posy of artificial flowers stood on the well-groomed plot.

9. But Beth's roses are sweeter to me," said Mrs. March, smelling the half-dead posy in her belt.

10. For cartoonists like Mel Calman and Posy Simmonds, success comes from making a picture say a thousand words.

11. So it is unique minority sculpt and posy different from mid-region bronze culture at hte same age.

12. The film is based on Posy Simmonds' comic strip, a reworking of Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd.

13. He picked a posy of flowers, but because of the weight of his armour he fell into the river.

14. One among her fellow-travellers addressed her more pointedly than any had spoken before: 'Why, you be quite a posy!

15. "They are lovely. But Beth's roses are sweeter to me, " said Mrs. March, smelling the half-dead posy in her belt.

16. Spring is represented as a young woman with her left hand holding a basket of flowers while a posy on the right.

17. It would appear that many of the bridal bouquets used in the USA reflect the posy style and, as such, this book confirms this supposition.

18. MY flowers were like milk and honey and wine ; I bound them into a posy with a golden ribbon, but they escaped my watchful care and fled away, and only the ribbon remains.Sentence dictionary