button-down

Examples

• All

• Dressing in crisp button-down shirts and khaki pants, he might have been a model for a J. Crew catalog.

  Academic text (2008)

• Hume, wearing a blue button-down collar shirt with a dark tie, sat in the lounge chair.

  Fiction book (2000)

• You want a button-down collar?

  Upside Down (2012)

• You definitely need at least some nice pants, a button-down shirt, and a tie.

  Blog text (18)

• Finally, she took out one of Joe's white button-down shirts.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Wayne wore a new button-down striped shirt with creases still in it from the package.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Today, Dick wore a white button-down shirt, a red-and-blue regimental-striped tie, and a pair of blue slacks.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Dressed in a button-down shirt and tie, Trevor walks up to the pale, utilitarian, box-like structure.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Again, he wore the navy blazer, Oxford cloth button-down shirt, khaki slacks, and tasseled oxblood loafers.

  Fiction book (1994)

• He looked sharp in his button-down shirt and tailored suit.

Synonyms

B

buttoned

vsbutton-down

1.0

Fastened with small round sewn pieces on clothes

is specific to collars whose ends are secured by buttons

How Buttoned

button-down

9 3.1

buttoned

1.0

unbuttoned

2 1.3

buttonless

1 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology