shirt-button
English
Noun
shirt-button (plural shirt-buttons)
- A button for a shirt, usually a man's.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XXIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224:
- […] though Mrs. Norris could fidget about the room, and disturb everybody in quest of two needlefuls of thread or a second-hand shirt button, in the midst of her nephew’s account of a shipwreck or an engagement, everybody else was attentive […]
- 1853, Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,”
- He had frequently restored to me sixpences and shillings carelessly dropped upon the floor, for I am apt to be very reckless in such shirt-button affairs [i.e., involving things of low value].
- 1975, André Brink, An Instant in the Wind, New York: William Morrow, 1977, pp. 219-220,
- A couple of his shirtbuttons were missing, the dark hair of his chest protruding through the gap.
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Hypernyms
- button