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buttonings

buttonings is the plural of buttoning.

Meaning of buttoning

Noun

buttoning (plural buttonings)

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

Questions about buttonings

What is buttonings the plural of?
Buttonings is the plural of buttoning.

Words near buttonings in the dictionary

  1. buttoning
  2. buttoning one's lip
  3. buttoning through
  4. buttoning up
  5. buttoning up one's lip
  6. buttonings
  7. buttonize
  8. buttonized
  9. buttonizes
  10. buttonizing
  11. buttonless

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