buttonmaking

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buttonmaking

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From button + making.

noun

uncountable The manufacture of buttons. Catastrophically for Dorset buttony, Ashton's buttonmaking machine was invented in 1850 and proudly exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. As a consequence of this invention, the Dorset cottage industry collapsed virtually overnight […]
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@misc{buttonmaking_2026,
  title = {buttonmaking},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/buttonmaking},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}