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Explanation
A billfold is a slim wallet meant to hold paper money and a few cards. You might keep your billfold in the back pocket of your jeans. There isn't much difference between a wallet and a billfold: typically, a billfold is thinner and has fewer slots for holding cards. Billfolds are most often made of leather and fit neatly in a pocket. The word dates from the late 1800s, from bill, or "paper money," and fold, which is thought to be short for folder.
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After Connor Halsa and a cousin hooked and reeled in what they thought was a fish, they instead found a billfold full of greenbacks.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
Out into mid-air, Quite unaware Of his exiting billfold and keys.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2022
An unhosted wallet is then, as Coin Telegraph puts it, the crypto equivalent of the billfold where you store your hard cash.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2022
It needs to be durable, versatile, stylish — and, well, not too hard on what’s in your billfold.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2018
When Abuela found his billfold in the bed of lantana he’d been weeding that afternoon—¡Ay-ay-ay!
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
Coach, founded as a family business in 1941, originally specialized in leather wallets and billfolds.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2017
Perhaps they have developed a product that consists of a large cylinder on a rotating spindle that is designed to hold multiple billfolds.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2015
Visiting Americans with swollen billfolds are warmly welcomed, but the course is really there for the McIlroys of the future.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2015
It has seats for two, a convertible top, and a price tag suited to college-boy billfolds: $1,795.
From Time Magazine Archive
She opened the door, prepared to admit three neighbors; instead, she discovered two strangers—men who tipped their hats and flipped open badge-studded billfolds.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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