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sleeve-buttons

sleeve-buttons is the plural of sleeve-button.

Meaning of sleeve-button

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

Questions about sleeve-buttons

What is sleeve-buttons the plural of?
Sleeve-buttons is the plural of sleeve-button.

Words near sleeve-buttons in the dictionary

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

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