shirt-button

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shirt-button

noun shirt-buttons · shirt button · shirtbutton

  1. A button for a shirt, usually a man's. […] though Mrs. Norris could fidget about the room, and disturb everybody in quest of two needlefuls of thread or a second-hand shirt button, in the midst of her nephew’s account of a shipwreck or an engagement, everybody else was attentive […]

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"shirt-button." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/shirt-button. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{shirt_button_2026,
  title = {shirt-button},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shirt-button},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}