bountiful (bountiful)

[ etc. He entered the room thus set off, with his hair dre ed in the first style, and with a handsome bouquet in his breast. Sterne , Sentimental Journey, p. 97. A contri I have a bouquet to come home to-morrow made up of diamonds, and rubies, and emeralds. Colman and Garrick , Clandestine Marriage, i 2 2. An agreeable non-spiritous perfume characteristic of some wines. bouquet-holder (bö-kā hōldėr), n . vance for holding together the stems of cut flowers, whether held in the hand or secured to the dre . Bouquet-holders held in the hand are represented in ancient Egyptian bas-reliefs and paintings: they have always been used in China made of fine basket-work and of valuable minerals; and in the eighteenth century, in western Europe, women carried flat flasks of metal of gla inserted within the corsage, holding tall nosegays which covered the bosom. Also called bouquetier . bouquetier bouquetier (bö-ke-ter'; F. pron. bö-ke-tyā'), n. [F., a flower-vase, bouquet-holder, bouquet in (F. pron. bö-ke-tań'), n. [F., earlier bouc - estain, bouc - d'estain (Cotgrave), lit. 'woolgoat' ( bouc, goat; de, of; of; estain, mod. F. étain, carded w wool), but appar. orig. a transposition of G. steinbock, D. steenbok: see steinbok.] The European ibex or steinbok, Capra ibex; hence, a name of the rock-goats of the genus Iвех. bourt, bouret, n. Middle English forms of bower1. bourach, bourock (bör'ach, -ok), n. [Sc., also written bowrock, boorick, prob. dim. of bour, boure, = E. bower1, q. v. Cf. bourach2.] 1. An inclosure: applied to the little houses built in play by children.-2. A small cot or hut. bourach2 (bör'ach), n. [Sc. (cf. borra, borradh, a heap of stones),