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English
Noun
sleeve-button (plural sleeve-buttons)
- (dated) A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC:“How those sleeve-buttons will suit me!” thought he, as he fixed a pair on the fat pudgy wrists of Mr. Sedley. “I long for sleeve-buttons; and the Captain’s boots with brass spurs, in the next room, corbleu! what an effect they will make in the Allee Verte!”
1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “”, in A Tramp Abroad; , Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:He wore […] projecting cuffs, fastened with large oxidized silver sleeve-buttons, bearing the device of a dog’s face—English pug.
1935, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 8, in Green Light, London: Peter Davies, page 137:The old man was fumbling with his sleeve button. Parker bared the arm, polished a little spot with a wisp of cotton saturated with alcohol, grasped the pathetically flabby skin with experienced fingers; and, tipping up the syringe, pushed the piston gently to expel the air.
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