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Part of the Ashmolean collection. Posie rings (sometimes spelled posy, posey or poesy rings) are gold finger rings with a short inscription on their surface. They were popular during the 15th through the 17th centuries in both England and France as lovers' gifts.
A post-medieval gold posie ring found in Leicestershire, England.Dated between 1600 and 1800, it is inscribed "God above keep us in love." Posy or Posey or Posie is an English given name derived from the English term for a small flower bouquet. [1]
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip hold nosegays by Rosemary Hughes as they leave Wakefield Cathedral after the 2005 Royal Maundy. A nosegay, posy, or tussie-mussie is a small flower bouquet.
A posy is a small flower bouquet, typically given as a gift.. Posy may also refer to: . Blue posy, a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae; Common posy, a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae
Grose was born at his father's house in Broad Street, St-Peter-le-Poer, London.His parents were Swiss immigrant and jeweller Francis Jacob Grose (d. 1769), and his wife, Anne (d. 1773), daughter of Thomas Bennett of Greenford in Middlesex.
The British band Queen released an album called At the Beeb in the UK and it had to be called "At the BBC" for US release. Belisha beacon orange ball, containing a flashing light or now sometimes surrounded by a flashing disc of LEDs , mounted on a post at each end of a zebra crossing (q.v.); named after the UK Minister of Transport Leslie Hore ...
Dear 23 is the second album by Seattle alternative rock/grunge/power pop band The Posies. [8] [9] The album was released in 1990 by DGC records and re-rereleased by Omnivore Recordings in 2018. [10] The first single was "Golden Blunders," which was later covered by Ringo Starr. [11] "
Dr. Richard Shuckburgh was a British surgeon and also the author of the song's lyrics; the joke which he was making was that the Yankees were naive and unsophisticated enough to believe that a feather in the hat was a sufficient mark of a macaroni. Whether or not these were alternative lyrics sung in the British army, they were enthusiastically ...