buttoning

buttoning

English

Verb

buttoning

1. present participle of button

Noun

buttoning (plural buttonings)

1. A fastening with buttons.
   • 1826, Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock

     He threw himself as he spoke upon a chair, and indolently, but gracefully, received the kind offices of Albert, who undid the coarse buttonings of the leathern gamashes which defended his legs […]