bouquet-holder

I should have expected to see a simple statue of the hero in the act of breaking a horseshoe or rolling up a silver plate into a bouquet-holder, according to the Guy-Livingstone habits in which he appears to have passed his life, and was more surprised than edified at sight of the large allegorical family with which the sculptor has endowed him.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

It really often looked like they did, for, morning and evening, at her milking, her nose, instead of her hand, served as bouquet-holder.

Hubert's Wife A Story for You Minnie Mary Lee

Why do civic wood-rangers choose the ailantus-tree for a bouquet-holder to the close-pent inhabitants of towns?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

This boils up once, and is then poured into a delicate little china cup half the size of an after-dinner coffee-cup, and for a saucer you have what resembles a miniature bouquet-holder of silver or gilt filigree.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various

Her heart began to beat faster than it had ever beaten in her young life, her hand closed upon her bouquet-holder with a nervous strength; she turned her face to the stage in the curious, excited, happy, and yet fearing tremor that took possession of her in a second.

Theo A Sprightly Love Story Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

"Doctor, I believe I have dropped my bouquet-holder.

Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864

"Will you take the bouquet-holder that I chose the other week for

The Precipice Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov 1851