buttonhole
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈbʌtənˌhoʊl/
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ojal
- His valet helps him on with his jacket, hands him a flower for his buttonhole, and he leaps over the sofa and moves toward the door.
- buttons and buttonholes
- flower for his buttonhole
- stitch a buttonhole
Examples
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I requested and received a pink strawflower to place in the buttonhole of my Technicolor jacket.
Fiction book (1992) -
Beautiful Irene, all dressed in mourning with one red rose in her buttonhole.
Fiction book (1992) -
And no flower for your buttonhole in the morning?
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Flower for your buttonhole, sir.
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We put it in our buttonhole.
Fiction book (1999) -
Or put a flower in my buttonhole?
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There were fresh flowers pale in the buttonhole.
Fiction book (1990) -
If he keeps it up, he'll have a decoration for his buttonhole this evening.
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Then she slipped the flower into the buttonhole of her coat and smiled softly as though she were remembering something beautiful.
Fiction book (1992) -
He proudly wore a red rose in his buttonhole at the wedding.
Compounds
- Specialized
A row of small sewn loops that finish and strengthen fabric edges around buttonholes
- Specialized
A machine that sews buttonholes, for example small round eyelet holes
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Buttonhole comes from the two words button and hole, and it means the small 'hole' in fabric where a button goes to fasten clothing.