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buttoning

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Verb

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buttoning

  1. present participle and gerund of button

Noun

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buttoning (plural buttonings)

  1. A fastening with buttons.
    • 1826, Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock:
      He threw himself as he spoke upon a chair, and indolently, but gracefully, received the kind offices of Albert, who undid the coarse buttonings of the leathern gamashes which defended his legs […]
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