Associations to the word «Corsage»

Wiktionary

CORSAGE, noun. (obsolete) The size or shape of a person's body.
CORSAGE, noun. (now) (only historical) The waist or bodice of a lady's dress.
CORSAGE, noun. A small bouquet of flowers, originally worn attached to the bodice of a woman's dress.

Dictionary definition

CORSAGE, noun. An arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats