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shirt-buttons

shirt-buttons is the plural of shirt-button.

Meaning of shirt-button

Noun

shirt-button (plural shirt-buttons)

  1. A button for a shirt, usually a man's.
    • […] 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 […]1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XXIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC

Questions about shirt-buttons

What is shirt-buttons the plural of?
Shirt-buttons is the plural of shirt-button.

Words near shirt-buttons in the dictionary

  1. shirt sleeve
  2. shirt sleeves
  3. shirt waist
  4. shirt waists
  5. shirt-button
  6. shirt-buttons
  7. shirt-collar
  8. shirt-collars
  9. shirt-frill
  10. shirt-frills
  11. shirt-front

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shirt-buttons (page history and authors); shirt-button (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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