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sleeve-button

sleeve-button noun: a button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.

Noun

sleeve-button (plural sleeve-buttons)

  1. (dated) A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.
    • […] I took my leave of Morgan with many tears, after we had exchanged our sleeve-buttons as remembrances of each other.1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter 35, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC, page 314
    • “How those sleeve-buttons will suit me!” thought he, as he fixed a pair on the fat pudgy wrists of Mr. Sedley. “I long for sleeve-buttons; and the Captain’s boots with brass spurs, in the next room, corbleu! what an effect they will make in the Allee Verte!”1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

Synonyms of sleeve-button

Forms of sleeve-button

pluralsleeve-buttons

Questions about sleeve-button

What does sleeve-button mean?
Sleeve-button means a button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.
What part of speech is sleeve-button?
Sleeve-button is a noun.
What is the plural of sleeve-button?
The plural of sleeve-button is sleeve-buttons.

Words near sleeve-button in the dictionary

  1. sleeve notes
  2. sleeve nut
  3. sleeve nuts
  4. sleeve tattoo
  5. sleeve tattoos
  6. sleeve-button
  7. sleeve-buttons
  8. sleeve-holder
  9. sleeve-holders
  10. sleeve-link
  11. sleeve-links

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