sleeve-button
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]sleeve-button (plural sleeve-buttons)
- (dated) A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.
- 1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter 35, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC, page 314:
- […] I took my leave of Morgan with many tears, after we had exchanged our sleeve-buttons as remembrances of each other.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- “How those sleeve-buttons will suit me!” thought he, as he fixed a pair on the fat pudgy wrists of Mr. Sedley. “I long for sleeve-buttons; and the Captain’s boots with brass spurs, in the next room, corbleu! what an effect they will make in the Allee Verte!”
- 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[HTTP://WWW.GUTENBERG.ORG/FILES/119/119-H/119-H.HTM 27]”, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- He wore […] projecting cuffs, fastened with large oxidized silver sleeve-buttons, bearing the device of a dog’s face—English pug.
- 1935, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 8, in Green Light[1], London: Peter Davies, page 137:
- The old man was fumbling with his sleeve button. Parker bared the arm, polished a little spot with a wisp of cotton saturated with alcohol, grasped the pathetically flabby skin with experienced fingers; and, tipping up the syringe, pushed the piston gently to expel the air.