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单词 button-making
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button-making
a. General attributive and objective (in sense 1a), as button factory, button-maker, button-making, etc.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of part of finished article > of buttons
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1589 Temporis Filia Veritas (title page) Bennion the Button-maker: and Balthesar the Barber.
1638 J. Lilburne Worke of Beast 10 The said Edmond Chillington Button Seller living in Canon street.
1687 Royal Proclam. in London Gaz. No. 2297/1 The Trade of Button-making.
1703 Observator 3 Mar. The Button-Trade is very beneficial to the Woollen-Manufacture.
1798 I. Sequeira New Merchant's Guide 205 Engines for making Button-Shanks.
1840 Newcastle Courant 6 Mar. ii. 4/3 One of the buttons was solidly built up with clay on the inside (that is, round the button neck).
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. iv. 50 These horns..would find a ready sale among the button-workers of England.
1883 Birmingham Daily Post 11 Oct. 3/2 (advt.) Button-stamper, for Brace and Shell Work.
1906 R. Carothers Mother's Walter ii. 36 The old button box was emptied out upon the kitchen floor.
1916 Bulletin (National Soc. Promotion Industr. Educ.) No. 21. 382 A good button sewer can sew on about 390 dozen buttons a day.
1960 E. L. Rewald & D. Rewald tr. B. Grzimek & M. Grzimek Serengeti shall not Die (1961) xii. 233 A button manufacturer from Scarsdale, New York, had just returned.
2006 P. E. Dans et al. Life on Lower East Side 35 I worked in a button factory... Very boring work.
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