bouquet

What it means

1. collectiveAn arrangement or bunch of cut flowers; a nosegay.

   For my birthday I received two bouquets.

   Synonyms: arrangement

2. A decoratively arranged bunch of something.

   Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.

   1 more example

   Aunt Cass rearranged the bouquet of spoons in the little vase on the table.

   2005, Mildred M. Jeffrey, Walking the Cliffs, page 10

3. The scent of a particular wine.

   This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.

In a sentence

For my birthday I received two bouquets.

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Germanic*buskaz
2. Frankish*busk
3. Early Medieval Latinboscus
4. Old Frenchbois
5. Old Frenchbochet
6. Frenchbouquet
7. Englishbouquet

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.