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Definition of Buttoning
1. button [v] - See also: button
Literary usage of Buttoning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"Their summer-fashion of going open-breasted came to us at Michaelmas, and we wore
it all winter; and their winter-fashion of buttoning close their strait ..."
2. The Second Power Kink Book: A Collection of Short Articles from Power in (1918)
""Buttoning A KEY" This is a means of tightening a key in its keyway when it is
difficult to remove it, as in some cases it means dismantling a lot of parts ..."