ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Collarbutton

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Collarbutton is a noun meaning Alternative form of collar button.

Meaning

Alternative form of collar button.

Example Sentences

The people on the grand jury were men, old men mostly, with chicken skin hanging over their collarbuttons.
She was peddling trinkets amongst the wharf-loungers—pocket combs, little round mirrors, shoestrings and collarbuttons.
I could hypnotize myself into a belief that souls were “lost,” like collarbuttons under a bureau, and I was the one man to rescue them.
One has the feeling that these devouring industrial dinosaurs, wreathed in cruel gusts of steam like Moloch, grind out collarbuttons or something equally puny.

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