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Flower in a lapel
Answer for the clue "Flower in a lapel ", 11 letters:
boutonniere
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Word definitions for boutonniere in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1877, from French boutonnière , from bouton (see button (n.)).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A boutonnière is a floral decoration worn by men, typically a single flower or bud. Boutonnière is the French word for “ buttonhole ”. While worn frequently in the past, boutonnières are now usually reserved for special occasions for which formal wear is ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A small flower or bunch of flowers worn in a buttonhole or pinned to the lapel of a jacket.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boutonniere \Bou`ton`ni[`e]re"\, n. [F., buttonhole.] A bouquet worn in a buttonhole. [1913 Webster] ||
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a flower that is worn in a buttonhole
Usage examples of boutonniere.
BESS, too, had taken a boutonniere from the box, and gone out into the vestibule to find Michael.
She slipped her hand beneath his lapel, and when the boutonniere was anchored, she stepped back.
He was wearing a tuxedo: shorn, clean-shaven, with a white boutonniere tucked into his lapel.
Presidential Medal, ribbon and all, to the front of his jacket through the boutonniere hole.
Holding Father securely, Steed forces her nose into his rose boutonniere, squeezes the rubber tube, sprays a Mist.
From the red boutonniere blossoming on the left pocket of his blue workshirt there spurted a thin fan of bright arterial blood.
I saw her eyes move to my Masonic ring, to the boutonniere in my lapel, to the clean rim of the new hat in my hand, to my gloves, to my shined shoes, to my Florida-tanned face, to my Bronzini tie.
It is a little stringy for a boutonniere, but it fills the modern-trained eye as no other flower can fill it.
Rambuteau, ou, rase de frais, le teint vermeil sous ses cheveux blancs, une rose a la boutonniere, il donnait chaque jour des consultations aux commercants poursuivis par les huissiers.
Even her jewelry, each piece of it, evoked a sense of its owner: heavy gold and diamond earrings so oversized she had to un clip them to talk on the telephone, and a pin fashioned to resemble a boutonniere, set with a stone an inch or two in diameter--as big as an actual flower--a sort of boldness that nobody else could carry off.
The man starts up the ladder, all elbows and flowers, in his top hat and boutonniere and balloon trousers.
He snaps a couple of roses off a bush and smells them and sticks them, boutonniere fashion, into the outhouse door.
Not only did he ply Tibby with flowers, today he'd bought corsages for every woman in town, as well as boutonnieres for the men.
Chris-Crossed Except for wearing shoes and the flower boutonnieres, all the prison trustees were certainly glad to be living in the governor's mansion instead of jail and Cecil Figgs was as happy as a lark planning all the social events.
He looked down at himself and seemed surprised to see the rose boutonnière, looking pretty bedraggled after the day it had had.