button-hole

A form of buttonhole — A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.

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Meanings

nounbutton-hole (plural button-holes)

plural button-holes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of buttonhole.

    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.

    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
verbbutton-hole (third-person singular simple present button-holes, present participle button-holing, simple past and past participle button-holed)

present singular third person button-holes · participle present button-holing · participle past button-holed · past button-holed

  1. alternativeAlternative form of buttonhole.
Cite this entry
APA

button-hole. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/button-hole

MLA

“button-hole.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/button-hole. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “button-hole,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/button-hole.

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