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Corsage   /kɔrsˈɑʒ/   Listen
noun
Corsage  n.  
1.
The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as, a low corsage.
2.
A flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament. Typically worn by women on special occasions (as, at a ball or an anniversary celebration), a corsage may be worn pinned to the chest, or tied to the wrist. It is usually larger or more elaborate than a boutonniere.





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"Corsage" Quotes from Famous Books



... eagerly, almost imploringly, from the darkness. David could hear the quick gasps of his questioner, could catch the rustle of the silken corsage as she breathed. ...
— The Crimson Blind • Fred M. White
... towards him, and was evidently listening to what he said, listening with that apparent intentness which was characteristic of her. She was dressed in black and violet, and wore a large knot of violets in her corsage. Round her throat was clasped an antique necklace of dull, unshining gold, and dim purple stones, which looked beautiful, but almost weary with age. Perhaps they had lain for years in some dim bazaar of Stamboul, forgotten under heaps of old stuffs. Dion thought of them as slumbering, ...
— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens
... you love me, wear a red rose in your corsage to-night at the opera. If my devotion to you is ...
— Jokes For All Occasions - Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers • Anonymous
... senses were preternaturally acute where Clara was concerned, was already looking toward the hall and was the first to see her. Clad in an evening gown of simple white, to the close-fitting corsage of which she had fastened a bunch of pink roses, she was to Ellis a dazzling apparition. To him her erect and well-moulded form was the embodiment of symmetry, her voice sweet music, her movements the perfection of grace; and it scarcely needed a lover's imagination to read ...
— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt
... her on the lounge, loosed her corsage, smoothed gently the tangled hair from her white face, closed the door, and went to ...
— The One Woman • Thomas Dixon


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