sleeve-button

English

Noun

sleeve-button (plural sleeve-buttons)

(dated) A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.
- 1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, London: J. Osborn, Volume 1, Chapter 35, p. 314,
  […] I took my leave of Morgan with many tears, after we had exchanged our sleeve-buttons as remembrances of each other.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 31,
  “How those sleeve-buttons will suit me!” thought he, as he fixed a pair on the fat pudgy wrists of Mr. Sedley. “I long for sleeve-buttons; and the Captain’s boots with brass spurs, in the next room, corbleu! what an effect they will make in the Allee Verte!”
- 1880, Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, Chapter 27,
  He wore […] projecting cuffs, fastened with large oxidized silver sleeve-buttons, bearing the device of a dog’s face—English pug.
- 1935, Lloyd C. Douglas, Green Light, London: Peter Davies, Chapter 8, p. 137,
  The old man was fumbling with his sleeve button. Parker bared the arm, polished a little spot with a wisp of cotton saturated with alcohol, grasped the pathetically flabby skin with experienced fingers; and, tipping up the syringe, pushed the piston gently to expel the air.

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