nosegay

Japanese: nosegay
nosegay

...It is said that this custom was introduced to Europe by Swedish King Charles XII, who had fled to Turkey for a time after being defeated by Russia's Peter the Great, and returned to Europe in 1714. In England, Victorian aristocrats learned the language of flowers and sent bouquets of several kinds of flowers called nosegays to their beloved women to express their feelings. In France, there was a custom of sending bouquets instead of letters and enjoying writing the language of the flowers. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "nosegay" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この風習をヨーロッパに伝えたのは,ロシアのピョートル大帝に敗れて一時トルコに逃げたことのあるスウェーデン王カール12世で,1714年の帰国以来のことだといわれる。イギリスでは,ビクトリア朝時代の貴族たちは,花言葉を学び,愛する女性にノーズゲイnosegayと呼ばれる数種類の花を組み合わせた花束を贈り,想いを伝えた。またフランスでは,花束を手紙の代りに贈り,花言葉をつづって楽しむ風習があった。…

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