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A garland of flowers.

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Usage examples (11)
  • She stood behind the tussie-mussie bed, shaking her fist at the silhouettes of the monks up on the parapets.
  • A nosegay, posey or posie, posy, flower bouquet or tussie-mussie is a small bunch of flowers, typically given as a gift.
  • Across the frozen and long-dead tussie-mussie bed he went, into the muddy field, into the cold wind blowing back off All Saints Bay.
  • These we taken apart at the seam very easily then centering the ribbon handles we cut large triangles out and rolled these into tussie-mussie cones.
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