shirt-button
English
Alternative forms
Noun
shirt-button (plural shirt-buttons)Category:English lemmas#SHIRTBUTTONCategory:English nouns#SHIRTBUTTONCategory:English countable nouns#SHIRTBUTTONCategory:English multiword terms#SHIRTBUTTONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SHIRTBUTTONCategory:Pages with entries#SHIRT-BUTTONCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SHIRT-BUTTON
- A button for a shirt, usually a man's.
- 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:
- […] 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 […]Category:English terms with quotations#SHIRTBUTTON
- 1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener:
- He had frequently restored to me sixpences and shillings carelessly dropped upon the floor, for I am apt to be very reckless in such shirt-button affairs [i.e., involving things of low value].Category:English terms with quotations#SHIRTBUTTON
- 1975, André Brink, An Instant in the Wind, New York: William Morrow, published 1977, pages 219–220:
- A couple of his shirtbuttons were missing, the dark hair of his chest protruding through the gap.Category:English terms with quotations#SHIRTBUTTON