button-hole
See also: button hole and buttonhole
English
Noun
button-hole (plural button-holes)Category:English lemmas#BUTTONHOLECategory:English nouns#BUTTONHOLECategory:English countable nouns#BUTTONHOLECategory:English multiword terms#BUTTONHOLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BUTTONHOLECategory:Pages with entries#BUTTON-HOLECategory:Pages with 1 entry#BUTTON-HOLE
- Alternative form of buttonhole.
- 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 130:
- Not far away is a factory in a rear yard where the factory inspector reports teams of tailors making men’s coats at an average of twenty-seven cents a coat, all complete except buttons and button-holes.Category:English terms with quotations#BUTTONHOLE
Verb
button-hole (third-person singular simple present button-holes, present participle button-holing, simple past and past participle button-holed)Category:English lemmas#BUTTONHOLECategory:English verbs#BUTTONHOLECategory:English multiword terms#BUTTONHOLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BUTTONHOLECategory:Pages with entries#BUTTON-HOLECategory:Pages with 1 entry#BUTTON-HOLE
- Alternative form of buttonhole.