buttonholes

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But his buttonholes were the greatest triumph of it all.

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  1. noun A small slit in a garment or piece of fabric for fastening a button.
  2. noun Chiefly British A boutonniere.
  3. transitive verb To make a buttonhole in.

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  • Although it's not hemmed or button-able (no buttons or buttonholes, yet), here is a little pink Flirt:Detail of the front collar, pleating around the neck just so...And the back:And the back detail:You might can see that I used bias piping made from the stripe at the waist, armhole, neck, and back opening edges.
  • Three have daisies in their buttonholes, a fourth a carnation, and none are packing heat, including the plainclothes. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 02 - February 1999
  • Many years ago a tailors' union meeting at Hull-House asked our cooperation in tagging the various parts of a man's coat in such wise as to show the money paid to the people who had made it; one tag for the cutting and another for the buttonholes, another for the finishing and so on, the resulting total to be compared with the selling price of the coat itself. —  20 Years At Hull House
  • And, as you can see, I even made buttonholes, which is really easy using my Bernina automatic buttonhole foot. —  Tigers & Strawberries
  • (One pupil earned $3.97 her first week on buttonholes, and over $7.00 the second.) —  The Making of a Trade School
 

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