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Posy
properly means a copy of verses presented with a bouquet. It
now means the verses without the flowers, as the “posy of a ring,” or
the flowers without the verses, as a “pretty posy.”
“He could make anything in poetry, from the posy of a ring to the
chronicle of its most heroid wearer.” —Stedman: Victorian Poets
(Landor), p. 47.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Posy from Infoplease:
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