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Definition of Buttonholes
1. buttonhole [v] - See also: buttonhole
Literary usage of Buttonholes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clothing for Women; Selection, Design, Construction: A Practical Manual for by Laura Irene Baldt (1916)
"Buttonholes. 2. The size should be about one-sixteenth inch more than the diameter of
... If the buttonholes are cut parallel to the edge of the garment, ..."
2. When Mother Lets Us Sew by Virginia Ralston (1910)
"MAKING Buttonholes We are now ready to make the buttonholes. It is always better
to make the buttonholes and sew on the buttons as each garment ..."
3. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"Buttonholes are worked horizontally in a coat opening. 4. ... (1) Baste piece of
cotton material to wrong side of waist where buttonholes are to be cut, ..."
4. Dressmaking: A Manual for Schools and Colleges by Jane Fales (1917)
"(3) Buttons and Buttonholes.—The sewing on of buttons and the making of plain
... There are buttonholes which are decorative as well as useful and the ..."
5. Scientific Sewing and Garment Cutting: For Use in Schools and in the Home by Louise M. Heller, Antoinette Prudence [Van Hoesen] Wakeman, Warshaw Collection of Business Americana (1898)
"Let the pupil practice cutting buttonholes in a strip of drafting- paper until
she can cut ... The buttonholes should be worked with white No. 40 thread. ..."
6. Fifty Years of an Actors̓ Life by John Coleman (1904)
"... The Spirit of the Loom—The City Theatre—Egerton, Sam Emery, and James Browne—My
First Acquaintance with Gustavus Brooke—Barry Sullivan buttonholes me in ..."
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