corsage
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The stolen items included sapphire and emerald sets once worn by Napoleon’s wives and Empress Eugénie’s diamond corsage brooch.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2025
The morning suit was replaced with an electric-blue shiny suit featuring wide-leg trousers, complete with leopard-print shirt and corsage.
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
The arrangements became more elaborate starting in the 1980s, having grown considerably since the days when a boy commemorated homecoming by giving a simple chrysanthemum corsage to a girl and received a garter in return.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2023
The production, directed with colorful flamboyance by Alex Timbers, wears its artifice like a bubblegum corsage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
Benny opened the box and pulled out the corsage, then slipped it around Isa’s wrist.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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She asked jurors if they’d be able to remember the color of their prom corsages or who was class president their junior year, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
On graduation day, teachers pinned corsages on the laughing graduates, usually a job for younger students.
From Reuters ● Mar. 30, 2023
Community members also chipped in for prom essentials, including dresses, tuxedos and corsages.
From Washington Times ● May 28, 2022
Celidan’s schedule had been loaded with the promise of bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages and table arrangements.
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2020
For these dances the boys send corsages, which I press afterward and keep in my bureau drawer: squashed carnations and brown-edged rosebuds, wads of dead vegetation, like a collection of floral shrunken heads.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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