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  • adjective Wearing clothes, or an item of clothing, with many buttons.

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Examples

  • In the shade of a green pagoda a bebuttoned officer of the law was resting, his arms folded, his club at rest in his belt.

    Sister Carrie 2004

  • In the shade of a green pagoda a bebuttoned officer of the law was resting, his arms folded, his club at rest in his belt.

    Sister Carrie: a Novel Theodore Dreiser 1908

  • In the shade of a green pagoda a bebuttoned officer of the law was resting, his arms folded, his club at rest in his belt.

    Sister Carrie 1900

  • In the shade of a green pagoda a bebuttoned officer of the law was resting, his arms folded, his club at rest in his belt.

    Sister Carrie 1900

  • Italian coat, inimitably befogged and bebuttoned -- and puffed profusely, following the intervolving smoke with his eye -- his meditations were always the same.

    Trumps George William Curtis 1858

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