collarbutton

Alternative form of collar button.

Noun

  1. Alternative form of collar button.
    • She was peddling trinkets amongst the wharf-loungers—pocket combs, little round mirrors, shoestrings and collarbuttons. - 1897 August 21, Frank Norris, “The House With the Blinds”, in The Wave, volume XVI, number 34,...
    • The time of production was shortened under machine labor comparatively with hand labor to about: ⅔ in the manufacture of fiowerpots,[…]; ¹⁄₁₅, seals, pitchforks, collarbuttons, threading pipe, canning fruit, cigars,...
    • LENINE’S finish does not interest us especially, but we hope that Trotsky will live long enough to resume business in the Bronx, dispensing shoelaces and collarbuttons. - 1918 August 13, The Chicago Daily Tribune,...

Forms

collarbuttons