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English
Noun
collar-button (plural collar-buttons)
- Alternative form of collar button.
1917, Ellwood Hendrick, Everyman’s Chemistry: The Chemist’s Point of View and His Recent Work Told for the Layman (Harper’s Modern Science Series), New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, page 196:It is their especial pleasure to roll your collar-button under the bed, to move your chair around so that you may stub your toe against it if you get up during the night, to work your penknife, keys, watch, and other valuables into upholstered recesses of your sofa or easy-chair, and, generally, to hide things.
1930, Michael Gold, “Portrait of My Mother”, in The Menorah Journal, volume XVIII, page 63:“When Mr. Zunzer first came to America,” Dr. Solow said, “he peddled neckties, shoelaces and collar-buttons from a tray. He was very poor. […]
1954 June 13, Carlos Baker, “After Lousy Wednesday”, in The New York Times Book Review; quoted in Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Jesse S. Crisler, and Susan Shillinglaw, editors, John Steinbeck: The Contemporary Reviews (American Critical Archives; 8), Cambridge University Press, 1996, →ISBN, pages 413–414:Lee Chong has sold his store to one Joseph and Mary Rivas, and departed in his own trading schooner with a stock of gold-plated collar-buttons, canned goods and rubber boots to the green and palm-strewn islands of the South Seas.