boutonniere

See also: Boutonniere and boutonnière

English

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boutonniere (plural boutonnieres)

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

flower worn in buttonhole