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a flower handcuffed to your wrist as proof someone risked the dance floor.
means a small bouquet of flowers worn pinned to a dress or strapped to the wrist, traditionally given for formal occasions like dances and weddings.
from From French corsage, meaning the bodice or upper body of a dress, built on cors — an old form of corps, "body," from Latin corpus. Originally the corsage was the part of the garment, and a "bouquet de corsage" was flowers worn at the bodice; English eventually shortened the phrase and let the flowers steal the whole word.
- french root
- From 'cors,' meaning the bodice it once adorned.
- original spot
- Worn on the chest, not the wrist, for centuries.
- ancient roots
- Greeks wore floral garlands to ward off evil spirits.
- the boutonniere
- Its single-bloom male counterpart sits over the heart.
- prom economy
- Fuels a multimillion-dollar floral rush each spring.
prom corsage tradition — american high school custom where dates receive wrist or pinned flowers, dating back to 1920s formal dances
royal wedding corsages — kate middleton wore a custom white rose and lily corsage at her 2011 wedding to prince william