See also: button-down <span class="searchmatch">buttondown</span> (not comparable) Alternative spelling of button-down....
See also: <span class="searchmatch">buttondown</span> buttoned-down button-down Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie. (idiomatic) Serious; staid; businesslike...
a recent interview that “the men's bomber jacket has become like the <span class="searchmatch">buttondown</span> shirt. It's become a basic item for men.” bomber-jacketed short leather...
here, although the designers have made wild Gallic stabs at the Ivy League's <span class="searchmatch">buttondowns</span> and multibuttoned and beflapped shirts of the American West....