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sleeve-button
[sleeve n.]
A button for fastening the loose sides of a wristband or cuff, esp. the cuff of a shirt-sleeve; a sleeve-link.
1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2203/4 Four Turky Stone Sleeve-Buttons, sett in Gold, and Enamell'd. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. ix. 393 His watch,..snuff-box, sleeve-buttons and hat. 1827Scott Surg. Dau. vii, You are in a place where a man's life has been taken for the sake of his gold sleeve-buttons. 1848Marryat Little Savage (Rtldg.) 167 Having felt great inconvenience for want of sleeve-buttons to hold the wrist⁓bands of my shirt together. 1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abr. 245 Cuffs fastened with large oxydised silver sleeve-buttons. |