单词 | rebutton |
释义 | rebuttonv. 1. transitive. To button again. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > fasten > again rebuckle1611 rebutton1827 1827 J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times I. 248 They then rebuttoned the knees of their breeches..and sat down to work again in downright earnest. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour x. li. 291 Then he began to rebutton the easy, brown great-coat. 1883 O. Schreiner Story Afr. Farm (new ed.) ii. ii. 325 He smiled his automaton smile, and rebuttoned the bag. 1940 C. Morgan Voyage v. vii. 490 He unbuttoned and rebuttoned his jacket and straightened his tie. 1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon ii. 37 The man..re-buttoned his grey overcoat. 2005 Fresno (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 5 Oct. b1 ‘See you next year,’ he told a nurse as he rebuttoned his shirt. 2. transitive. To provide with new buttons. ΚΠ 1853 Brit. Jrnl. 3 33 The coat had been re-buttoned and re-cuffed and re-collared, and done up in all manner of ways. 1867 ‘A. Grant’ Mr. Secretary Pepys 8 An old seedy black coat,..re-buttoned, sponged, and ‘goosed up’. 1919 Times 25 Apr. 16/5 (advt.) The material is..re-packed and re-buttoned with the skill that distinguishes the original making of a Heal mattress. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 5 May (Money section) 2 There'll be loads of clothes..which will live again once they are mended, dyed, rebuttoned, altered, or even just ironed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1827 |
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