Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Decorated with buttons or small bosses, as a glass vase.
- In heraldry, ornamented with small points, usually of a different tincture; studded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective furnished with buttons or something buttonlike. Opposite of
unbuttoned .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
button . - adjective with
buttons fastened
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike
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Examples
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Blouses are designed to look as though they were buttoned from the top, but no button exists near the collar bone.
Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 2009
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As for the amazement that these were built in buttoned down Spain, Catalunya is a very different place from the rest of the country – much more cosmopolitan and ars gratia artis than Madrid, for example.
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A bespoke 3. 5m long bench to the left of the entrance makes a statement in buttoned leather with marble inserts (whilst functionally concealing a radiator), made for SHH by Naught One.
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Shirts ran the gamut from an easy Nehru collar, or wide, stiff Eton-collar shirts that give new meaning to the phrase buttoned-up.
Milan Men's Fashion Week: S&M, Silk Suits & McQueen (PHOTOS) 2010
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Shirts ran the gamut from an easy Nehru collar, or wide, stiff Eton-collar shirts that give new meaning to the phrase buttoned-up.
Milan Men's Fashion Week: S&M, Silk Suits & McQueen (PHOTOS) 2010
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They do exhibit a certain buttoned-down wit, though.
American Everyman 2004
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They do exhibit a certain buttoned-down wit, though.
American Everyman 2004
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Shirts ran the gamut from an easy Nehru collar, or wide, stiff Eton-collar shirts that give new meaning to the phrase buttoned-up.
The Seattle Times 2010
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I "buttoned" the circles onto the eyes, then used a few stitches to tack them down.
Archive 2005-03-20 Sonja 2005
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I "buttoned" the circles onto the eyes, then used a few stitches to tack them down.
Bunny Eyes Sonja 2005
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