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button-hole en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of buttonhole.
   alt of buttonhole
   • Not far away is a factory in a rear yard where the factory inspector reports teams of tailors making men’s coats at an average of twenty-seven cents a coat, all complete except buttons and button-holes. 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 130:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
button-holes	Number=Plur		lexicographic

button-hole en · VERB

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of buttonhole.
   alt of buttonhole

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
button-holes	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
button-holing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
button-holed	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
button-holed	Tense=Past		lexicographic