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单词 buttonhole camera
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buttonhole camera
c. attributive, with the sense ‘worn in or designed to be attached to a (lapel) buttonhole’, as buttonhole rose, buttonhole light, buttonhole camera, etc. See also buttonhole flower n., buttonhole bouquet n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > worn as reading-aid
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1848 J. Richardson Trav. Sahara II. xxi. 180 The Chinese have their peacock's feather as a set-off against our button-hole ribbon.
1878 University Mag. (Dublin) Feb. 184/2 A fine man, who affected style, had an inveterate tendency to lavender kid gloves and button-hole roses.
1894 Weekly Standard & Express (Blackburn) 27 Jan. 8/2 I have not yet seen, outside London, the button-hole globes of electric light worn by the 'bus ticket collectors.
1919 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Standard Telegram 15 Oct. 20/6 Button hole light late innovation. One of the latest innovations in the..flashlight is the one which fits in your coat lapel.
1955 Observer 13 Nov. 8/3 Their new, complete portable transmitting apparatus with the buttonhole microphone which obviates the trailing wires or the impudent stick.
1993 T. Burns Use of Memory viii. 81 A tall blind young man with a Nazi buttonhole badge.
2007 D. Baldacci Stone Cold (2017) 344 Finn strolled around the lab, surreptitiously taking pictures with his buttonhole camera.
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