'posy' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small bunch of flowers. For example: "She held a posy of daisies in her hands as she stepped into the garden."
Reviewing her debut album, 2003's solid-but-unremarkable Thankful, Rolling Stone described her as "a pop posy whose career is tied for eternity to the whims of her American Idol overlords".
Tenderly, he recounts a journey across the Cairngorm massif to attend the funeral of his grandfather, also a hillwalker, and to lay a small posy of granite-grown flowers on his grandfather's favourite path.Along these trails he notices everything.
In the mid-19th century, the nosegay, or posy (a small bunch of mixed flowers), was much in fashion.
The shield-shaped bouquet comprised lily-of-the-valley, hyacinth, sweet William and myrtle, the herb of love – picked at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, where Queen Victoria herself planted a sprig from her own wedding posy.
She points at the tiny acid-green flowers and glaucous leaves of Bupleurum rotundifolium in the posy on the table.
For this Valentine's, luxury florist Philippa Craddock has launched a new posy collection separate from her main collection – smaller, hand-tied bunches in two different sizes.
Necessarily hung high, to clear the East Room's wainscoting, the painting presents its bottom to eye level: a floor littered with a cigarette butts, burnt matches, and a fallen posy, likely of violets.
A deputation of older girls came up to me with solemn faces one playtime and presented me with a posy of flowers — probably picked out of the front gardens on their way to school — tied up with raffia from the craft cupboard.
Of ten dresses, Kondo selected two: a gauzy cotton dip-dyed blue tunic dress by Holding Horses in size extra-small petite, and a buttercup-yellow brocaded sheath dress by Tracy Reese in size 2. The posy dress was cute, she said, "but I do not really have to have it".
There, plumb in the middle of the courtly city's most classical space, "Le Kiosque des Noctambules" offers a gaily-colored posy to night owls descending into the jaws of the Métro.
There was even a description of her posy (hydrangea, agapanthus, peony and roses) and who would deliver it (Marianna Spring, 14, Sutton High).
