buttonhole BrE
boutonniere AmE

"I have to be able to see the button and the buttonhole."

And I'm going to work buttonholes all over this cotton.

I'll just mention one more band before we go to buttonholes.

John put an arm around his middle, hiding the buttonhole.

Then he asked me what the red ribbon in my buttonhole stood for?

Sometimes an extra hole was made in line with the buttonholes for this use.

Would he perhaps wear a flower in his buttonhole or something?

Buttonholes began to appear in the coats of the young men.

The competition is for a buttonhole made from a fresh flower.

"What's the good of working buttonholes on an old rag?"

"We got only enough to buy the lapels and the buttonholes."

The bound buttonhole is less popular except for the very good houses.

At this point, he makes buttonholes to do something.

Often two or three buttonhole places are available on a given fistula.

A few years later, he met his future wife, a button and buttonhole specialist who worked for the same company.

He had a flower in the buttonhole of his cheap suit.

Grandma would use it for her buttonholes when she went to church, along with a flower or two.

If the buttonhole is not good, it wears out from the using and abusing.

I decided the tailor had been right after all about placement of the buttonholes.

I wear a buttonhole in the summer, too, and a diamond ring.

The league gave them permission to set up shop near the meetings and buttonhole officials.

Then she freed the buttonhole from the top button of his shirt.

He was simply to wear a blue ribbon in his buttonhole."

However, one buttonhole remains unfinished because there was "no more twist!"

He also wore plus fours and was known for his buttonholes.

All he lacked was the finishing touch of a boutonniere.

He wore a white rose boutonniere on his wedding suit.

He felt suddenly foolish and wanted to the boutonniere from his lapel.

"You look more finished with a boutonniere," she said.

The Shadow observed that the boutonniere was a fresh one, quite in keeping with the standard.

I didn't come back here to wear a boutonniere or to cap off a resume.

Once, to soothe a crying child, he gave her his carnation boutonniere.

Off had come the boutonniere, the contrasting waistcoat, the colored shirt.

On the man's upper right torso, a small oval of red bloomed, like a boutonniere.

The man asking the question was dressed in a cutaway, the red boutonniere his symbol of authority.

"I do not intend to come back to wear the governership as a boutonniere," he said recently.

Remember, every person participating in your wedding requires either a bouquet, corsage, or boutonniere.

So I stopped and bought a boutonniere.

He's rarely seen without a fresh boutonniere.

In the picture, 36 men in suits, each with a carnation boutonniere, sit at long tables.

'Wear a boutonniere, and they are not going to take you seriously.'

When we went to pick up his boutonniere for the winter formal, he was there picking up her corsage.

He spoke about the origins of the boutonniere, and the difference between suspenders and braces.

Robb tucked the frond into the breast pocket of his uniform, like a boutonniere.

Following Star Trek, he appeared in the comedy short Boutonniere (2009).

The musician hadn't left anything behind, neither a popped button nor crimson petals from his boutonniere.

It can be a pin-on type corsage (a boutonniere).

And yet the man at the reception desk in the distance appeared to be wearing a tuxedo, and even a boutonniere!

"I've come for my boutonniere," Paul said.