Definitions for boutonniere

boutonniere bou·ton·niere

Spelling: [boot-n-eer, boo-tuh n-yair]
IPA: /ˌbut nˈɪər, ˌbu tənˈyɛər/

Boutonniere is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 531 anagrams from letters in boutonniere (beeinnoortu).

Definitions for boutonniere

noun

  1. a flower or small bouquet worn, usually by a man, in the buttonhole of a lapel.

Origin of boutonniere

1875-80; French boutonnière buttonhole (bouton button + -ière suffix for things that facilitate the use of that denoted by the stem Latin -āria

Examples for boutonniere

He lifted the lapel of his coat, carrying the boutonniere to his nose.

Then as she glanced at the lapel of his coat she continued: "And you must have a boutonniere; may I select something for you?"

Seven violets so treated will be sufficient for one boutonniere.

It is a little stringy for a boutonniere, but it fills the modern-trained eye as no other flower can fill it.

No woman ever combined a carnation and a rosebud into a boutonniere.

He seems to have passed it and to have plucked it casually,—but it is a boutonniere with tin foil round it.

Word Value for boutonniere
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Words with friends

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