The mothers of the bride and groom will each get a corsage to wear to the wedding. From LearnThat.org.
Shown below: Just in time for prom night, a condom corsage from the Inflatable museum website. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: May 4, 2003 - May 10, 2003 Archives] Reference
MK thinks it's costumey and makes her look like a majorette, and also thinks the corsage is strange. From Wordnik.com. [Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 4 Recap: Cooter Couture] Reference
While the corsage is the only part that's slipped. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914] Reference
Ordering a corsage is the least of anyone's worries. From Wordnik.com. [Dodge City Daily Globe Home RSS] Reference
The bulk of Davis 'collection is the orchid variety Cattleya, commonly known as the corsage orchid. From Wordnik.com. [News & Record Article Feed] Reference
What kind of corsage do you get a girl for the Oklahoma City bombing anniversary?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Bachmann: Bill Clinton Is Trying To ‘Celebrate’ The Oklahoma City Bombing And ‘Take [Me] Out’] Reference
So Allison, are you wearing your Black-eye Susan corsage?. From Wordnik.com. [Girl Power: A Filly Wins The Preakness] Reference
I said, "Here's your corsage," and laid the peony on the table. From Wordnik.com. [Prom Date] Reference
The detective began chafing her hands at once, and loosened her corsage. From Wordnik.com. [Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express] Reference
The front of the corsage is trimmed with rows of lace set on horizontally. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
The corsage is half high at the back, and is sloped somewhat lower in front. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
A flower of the same hue and workmanship trembled from the point of her corsage. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
This style of corsage is equally effective for a too thin or a too muscular neck. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
The modest lace flounce that falls in vertical folds decreases her formidable corsage. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
Her Friend -- Madame Savain told me that you had suppressed the shoulders of the corsage. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Miss O'Brian will wear a corsage bouquet given by her mother, the first part of the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [The 1926 Tatler] Reference
In the engraving, it is represented of pink silk, with an open corsage, and sleeves demi-long. From Wordnik.com. [Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851] Reference
A square-cut corsage is most becoming to the woman whose narrow shoulders have a consumptive droop. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
No. 61 may improve her defects by adopting either style of corsage, shown in sketches Nos. 63 and 64. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
She wore a red rose in the coils of her jetty hair, and another fastened the black lace of her corsage. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
Orange blossoms, the natural flowers, form the trimming to the corsage and a coronet to fasten the veil. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
She waved away, with a brusque gesture, the orange-flowers which her maid was about to attach to her corsage. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Monsieur Dechartre, whose soul is artistic, must be very glad, too, to see at your corsage that charming jewel. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
David could hear the quick gasps of his questioner, could catch the rustle of the silken corsage as she breathed. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
It was only a corsage bouquet, but the violets, arranged with a few fronds of maidenhair, were delightfully fresh. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
It will be seen in fig. 1, which is intended to be worn with that style of corsage, and corresponds to it exactly. From Wordnik.com. [Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851] Reference
Six little parrots are emblazoned on the right side, one on her sleeve, two on her corsage, and three on her skirt. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Her white gown had sleeves like wings, and on the drapery of her corsage, at the left breast, shone a large ruby lily. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The woman continued: Al Gore would bring a corsage, and he would ask her parents 'permission, and he would arrive right on time. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: Faith vs. Reason] Reference
She unfastened the bouquet of white starry woodruff from her corsage, and handed them over to him in their envelope of green leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
However, I would accessorize -- sometimes, with a graduation-cap mortarboard, or a Roman laurel wreath, or an enormous prom corsage. From Wordnik.com. [Courting trouble: It's confirmed -- Gene is a jerk] Reference
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