Crossword clues for billfold
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
billfold \bill"fold`\ (b[i^]l" f[=o]ld`), A small, thin, flat container, usually made of leather or imitation leather, having a pocket of a size just large enough to hold paper currency and folded over once to fit in the pocket of one's clothing; it is a type of wallet, but having fewer compartments than the typical wallet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A small, folding sleeve or case designed to hold paper currency, as well as credit cards, pictures, etc.
WordNet
n. a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money [syn: wallet, notecase, pocketbook]
Usage examples of "billfold".
First she smelled the jacket and the vest while she took the watch chain out of the buttonhole and removed the pencil holder and the billfold and the loose change from the pockets and placed everything on the dresser, and then she smelled the hemmed shirt as she removed the tiepin and the topaz cuff links and the gold collar button, and then she smelled the trousers as she removed the keyholder with its eleven keys and the penknife with its mother-of-pearl handle, and finally she smelled the underwear and the socks and the linen handkerchief with the embroidered monogram.
This time one of the clowns pulled in a wagon, and one of my cousins was there with the big billfold and the big dollars playacting, pretending to buy sacred things.
In the pocket of the coat he found a billfold: in the billfold were one hundred and forty-three dollars, a Visa charge card, and a plastic-encased social security card.
In the billfold he found thirty-six dollars, a Visa charge card and a plastic-encased social security card both made out to Bill Johnson, and a receipt for an insured package.
He tossed the billfold back to the table, walked to the stove, ran a little water from the hot water tap into a teakettle, and put it on the stove.
Between conversations on his rolling world, the man named Bill Johnson occasionally removed a newspaper clipping from his billfold and read it again.
In the billfold were three dollar bills, a pawnshop ticket, a Visa credit card, and a plastic-encased social security card.
The man removed the note and put it into his jacket pocket along with the paper clip, put the cards into his billfold with the dollar bills, picked up the cassette and put it in the other pocket.
As if by magic, ragged children appeared with their hands out, and the man gave away his other dollar bills and the coins in his pocket before he demonstrated that his billfold and his pockets were empty and the beggars disappeared as quickly as they had assembled.
In the billfold were a Visa credit card, three one-dollar bills and a five in U.
Once more back on the bed, she unfolded the thin rectangular billfold and fingered past the useless credit cards until she reached the pictures.
Into his pants pockets he put keys and change and billfold, with some vague idea of getting himself ready to deal with the world, to face its reckoning for his crimes.
In the old days, when he'd learned the skill at his grandfather's knee, men carried their billfolds in their rear pants' pockets, neatly outlined for all the world to see.
Blisters Schultz lifted two billfolds, containing respectively fourteen and twenty-two dollars.
On the winning side, he had harvested three more billfolds and a woman's purse: total haul, a hundred and ninety-four bucks.