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  • n  an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present

  • But last week he just slipped a posy into his buttonhole, picked up Jamelle (who quit her job in the Highway Department), and took off from the Governor's Mansion.
  • To help her, Williams composed and sent her "a handful of flowers" plucked from the garden of Scripture and made into "a little posy fit and easy for thy meditation and refreshing.
  • A small and pleasant posy of Irish herbs and flowerspoems lacking the conventional oh-so-damn-Gaelic concern with the Sidhe, the Bear without Bristles.
News & Articles

  • Morgan County barn quilt represents Colorado
    Artwork on a Morgan County barn has been chosen to represent Colorado in a new redwork ornament kit by historic needlework designer, The Posy Collection.
    June 24, 2013 - The Fort Morgan Times
Quotes

  • Stephen Frears in The Guardian
    Frears said: "I have known Posy for 40 years and as soon as I was told about the idea I thought it was absolutely wonderful. The script [by playwright Moira Buffini] made me laugh and it was very sexy. Posy is the funniest woman in Britain and the...
  • Shaun Brown in Sydney Morning Herald
    Imagine that SBS is a widow with small children in a Dickensian workhouse. She barely feeds her family on a bowl of gruel a day and is grateful for it,Mr Brown told the Australian Broadcasting Summit in Sydney. "One day she sells a posy of...

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