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Definition of Button hole
1. Noun. A hole through which buttons are pushed.
Literary usage of Button hole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Shoe Industry by Frederick James Allen (1922)
"Positions in the button hole Department. The usual positions in the button hole
section are as follows: 1. Forewoman. 2. Teacher. 3. Inspector. 4. ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"He liked them best of all the flowers, and would have one often in his button-hole.^ We
found he intended the arpeggio passages in that composition as a ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"In this, tho work is •Ud down to the table of the machine by a spring clamp,
having an opening in its centre :';- -b:i[ e of a button-hole, only much longer ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of United States by Jabez S. Holmes (1877)
"SEPTEMBER, 1873. Decree affirmed. THE SINGER SEWING-MACHINE COMPANY v. THE UNION
BUTTON-HOLE AND EMBROIDERY COMPANY et al. An injunction may be granted ..."
5. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
"... suit my button-hole better, but I feel myself wronged ; I am not understood."
This difference in awards led to an estrangement between the two friends, ..."
6. Peterson's Magazine (1876)
"Work two button-hole stitches close to one another ; miss a space about the eighth
... At the end of the row, work two button-hole stitches down the side, ..."
7. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"... sides thereof and around the button-hole by the successive ranges of interlocked
loops. "This suspender-end can either be made by hand or by machinery. ..."
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