0 a hole that a button is pushed through to fasten a shirt, coat, etc.
2 a narrow hole that a button is pushed through to fasten a shirt, coat, etc.
3 to stop someone and make the person listen to you:
They took out newspaper ads and buttonholed politicians to lobby for the change.
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.
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