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† button-scar n. Obsolete rare a button-shaped scar, typically resulting from cauterization, made (usually on the face or ridge of the nose) as part of a traditional ritual or cosmetic practice among some East, Central, and southern African peoples. [In quot. 1897 with reference to Afrikaans Knopneuzen , Knoopneuzen (plural: see knobnose n.), lit. ‘knob-noses, button-noses’, former name (used by European settlers) of the Tsonga people of southern Africa, on account of their former practice of wearing a row of nodular scars along the ridge of the nose, in this passage apparently interpreted by the translator as denoting the scars themselves (the passage translated uses the Afrikaans name in a German context; a more literal translation would be ‘the so-called Knopneuzen, among whom a row of button-shaped warty scars..’).]