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• He also co-patented machines designed to manufacture barbed-wire fencing, skive, gage and mark leather, create leather buttonholes, rub type, and remove bristles from sealskins.

• In modern usage, the term "placket" often refers to the double layers of fabric that hold the buttons and buttonholes in a shirt.

• The buttonholes, aligned vertically, are placed on the placket, though the top button and buttons at the bottom of stiff fronts are aligned horizontally.

• Such shirts have special buttonholes solely for shirt studs.

• During exams, candidates often also wear a carnation in their buttonholes: white for the first exam, pink thereafter, and red for the final exam of the run.

• Most modern sewing machines have this function built in, but many older machines do not, and straight stitch machines can not sew a zigzag stitch with which buttonholes are constructed.

• I also congratulate him on his choice of buttonhole.

• Every day he arrived with a fresh red rose in his buttonhole.

• I would not be surprised to see one or two wandering in with a primrose in their buttonhole.

• I can see he is wearing a red flower in his buttonhole, which is very significant.

• I should like in passing to congratulate him on having found time to be on parade and to acquire the emblem in his buttonhole.

• He was exquisitely dressed with an orchid in his buttonhole, gold-topped cane and gloves.

• First, whatever his leisure-time occupations may be, he certainly never puts a rosette in his buttonhole and arms himself with a rattle to support a football club.

• Lapels also have a buttonhole, intended to hold a boutonnire, a decorative flower.

• The buttonhole technique can be used for fistulas requiring frequent access.