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boutonnière

boutonnière is the alternative spelling of boutonniere.

Meaning of boutonniere

Noun

boutonniere (plural boutonnieres)

  1. A small flower or bunch of flowers worn in a buttonhole or pinned to the lapel of a jacket.
    • The rare white "Heliotrope" whose flower can can be worn as a boutanniere ^([sic]) and whose scent can be discreetly sprinkled on hankerchieves.1991 August 31, Rudy Grillo, “Color Me Gay”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 7, page 11
    Synonyms:
    buttonhole

Forms of boutonnière

pluralboutonnières

Origin of boutonnière

Borrowed from French boutonnière.

Questions about boutonnière

What is boutonnière the alternative spelling of?
Boutonnière is the alternative spelling of boutonniere.

Words near boutonnière in the dictionary

  1. boutonniere
  2. boutonniere deformities
  3. boutonniere deformity
  4. boutonniered
  5. boutonnieres
  6. boutonnière
  7. boutonnières
  8. boutons
  9. Boutros
  10. Boutroses
  11. bouts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boutonnière (page history and authors); boutonniere (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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