A vase or container used to hold cut branches or flowers, especially large branches with foliage.
Compound word from 'bough' (tree branch) and 'pot' (container). Common in English from the 17th-19th centuries for floral arrangements.
Before the florist industry, people used 'bough pots' to arrange branches in their homes for decoration—they needed sturdy, heavy vessels because green branches with leaves were much heavier than the delicate arrangements we're used to seeing today.
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