Crossword clues for boutonniere
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boutonniere \Bou`ton`ni[`e]re"\, n. [F., buttonhole.] A bouquet worn in a buttonhole. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1877, from French boutonnière, from bouton (see button (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. A small flower or bunch of flowers worn in a buttonhole or pinned to the lapel of a jacket.
n. (alternative spelling of boutonniere English)
WordNet
n. a flower that is worn in a buttonhole
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 standard, such as at proms, homecomings, funerals, and weddings. (Women who wear jackets on these occasions also often may wear "buttonholes", but more typically a woman would wear a corsage.) Nowadays, a lapel pin is worn more often than flowers on business suits.
Traditionally, a boutonnière was worn pushed through the lapel buttonhole (on the left, the same side as a pocket handkerchief) and the stem is held in place with a loop at the back of the lapel. The flower's calyx, if pronounced such as those of a carnation, should be fully inserted into the buttonhole which would secure it tightly and flat against the lapel. Thus the buttonhole should ideally be at least 1⅛" long for there to be enough room to fit a standard sized flower's calyx. Otherwise, the calyx would not fit into the buttonhole and the flower head would hang freely and move about in the wind.
However, on many recently made coats and jackets, the lapel is made without the loop required, which would normally sit on the reverse of the lapel, beneath the buttonhole. Sometimes, the lapel buttonhole is in the "keyhole" shape, as opposed to the traditional straight cut, or is not even pierced through, in which case the boutonnière may be pinned onto the jacket lapel, although this may be considered unsightly and continued pinning could eventually damage the cloth or silk facing.
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.