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Definition of Golden buttons
1. Noun. Common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally.
Generic synonyms: Composite, Composite Plant
Group relationships: Genus Tanacetum, Tanacetum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Golden Buttons
Literary usage of Golden buttons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ollendorff's New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the French by Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff, J. L. Jewett (1850)
"Has your tailor my fine golden buttons ?—He has not your fine golden buttons,
but your fine golden threads.—What has the sailor 1—He has his fine ships. ..."
2. Ollendorff's New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the Italian by Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff, Eleutario Felix Foresti (1857)
"—Has your tailor my pretty golden buttons?—He has not your pretty golden buttons,
but your pretty golden threads (jili).— What has the sailor ? ..."
3. Ollendorff's New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak, the Spanish by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, Théodore Simonné, Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff (1854)
"Has your tailor my fine golden buttons ?—He has not your fine golden buttons,
but your fine golden candlestick.—What has the sailor ?—He has his fine ships. ..."
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