collar-button

I spoke thus to an audience in New Britain, Connecticut, and a lady four seats back went home and tried to take off her collar, and the collar-button stuck in the buttonhole.

Acres of Diamonds 2008

It was a collar-button with a spring cap attached to the outer side.

Acres of Diamonds 2008

When her husband ridiculed her, she made up her mind she would make a better collar-button, and when a woman makes up her mind “she will,” and does not say anything about it, she does it.

Acres of Diamonds 2008

"Wish I had about three more o 'thim for this collar-button," grumbled the engineer before the mirror.

The Return of Blue Pete Luke Allan

"A nut or a pin loose," suggested Walter, who now did what Jack called the "collar-button crawl" under the big car.

The Motor Girls Through New England or, Held by the Gypsies Margaret Penrose

Or that other mean man I heard of, who was so economical that he used a wart on the back of his neck for a collar-button.

Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

_Don't_ you want to quit working your face all out of shape struggling with a collar-button?

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

With a smile, with infinite ingratiation and gentle persuasion, our friend exhibits the merits of his device which does away with the traditional collar-button.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

His art is to make the collar-button seem a piteous, almost a tragic thing.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

That a collar-button that drops to the floor when one is dressing invariably rolls into an obscure and inaccessible spot and eludes the explorations of its owner.

The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind George Jean Nathan 1920