billfold
Other forms: billfolds
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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a pocket-sized case for holding papers and paper moneysynonyms: notecase, pocketbook, wallettype of:casea portable container for carrying several objects
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