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Definition of buttonhole in English: buttonholenounˈbʌt(ə)nhəʊlˈbətnˌhoʊl 1A slit made in a garment to receive a button for fastening. Example sentencesExamples - Make the samples on the same number of fabric and interfacing layers that are in the garment where the buttonholes are located.
- In the course of ten classes she would learn to hem, fell seams, draw threads, gather stitches, edge buttonholes, sew on buttons, make herringbone stitches, darn holes, tuck pleats, and mark linen.
- Unlike the handsaw, which was refined over time, the button and its buttonhole simply appeared in northern Europe in the thirteenth century - true works of an anonymous inventive genius.
- It usually presents a double row of buttons with a single row of buttonholes.
- Another approach is to take a shirt that fits you perfectly and determine the distance between the middle of its collar button to the far end of the buttonhole.
- Details like workmanship, buttons, buttonholes, cuffs, and seams are usually good indicators of the item's quality and authenticity. where to find the goods
- Her hands easily slid the first large white buttons out of the buttonhole.
- Attach a heavier than normal interfacing scrap (or two layers of interfacing) on the garment wrong side before constructing the buttonhole.
- Miller began hooking small buttons into buttonholes down at the top of the skirt and continued up the bodice, pulling the fabric tightly to smooth out all the wrinkles.
- Buttons and buttonholes should sit inside the topstitching, never overlap it.
- Although the bar tack is frequently the buttonhole of choice, many machines can make rounded and keyhole buttonholes, as well as eyelets.
- If you are planning on making buttonholes, then interface the center front edges of both front pieces.
- Arrange the flowers in a cascade from the right front shoulder seam down the center front, working around the buttonhole.
- Touches such as real cuff buttonholes or hand-finished lapels now come into play.
- Check for welted buttonholes; they normally look like mail slots.
- The pattern will indicate placement for buttons and buttonholes but final locations are best determined after the pattern is altered and fitted to you.
- On the center front of a garment, horizontal buttonholes are the most secure and help prevent the opening from gaping.
- It should be worn on the outside of the buttonhole, and not in it.
- Truth is, the best shirts made in recent years have all had two buttonholes on each cuff.
- Test-stitch buttonholes before stitching on the garment.
- 1.1British A flower or spray worn in a buttonhole on the lapel of a jacket.
Example sentencesExamples - The campaign centres on the sale of silk buttonhole daffodils and bunches of fresh daffodils by over 5,000 volunteers countrywide.
- Brenda Fitzell and Lesley Irvine were thanked for the table flowers and birthday buttonholes.
- Corbett later recalled that belts, coats, hats, and canes, and flowers from buttonholes - the accoutrements of gentlemen - are all flung his way.
- ‘I know he has nothing to do with this,’ said Jamal Awadallah, who was wearing a red, white and blue Together We Stand buttonhole.
- A Shrivenham florist made a wedding at Cricklade a happy event by stepping in after a Swindon firm failed to deliver the bride's bouquet and 30 buttonholes for guests.
- But they have as much and as little to do with gardens as a buttonhole or a bridal bouquet.
- Just before slipping into the back seat of the car, gardener Tom would pick a flower for his boss' buttonhole.
- John was a colourful figure, with a predilection for striped blazers, white silk dinner jackets, hats, buttonholes, and club ties, of which he had a magnificent collection.
- Both children received a special cup, as well as a posy of flowers for the princess and a buttonhole for the prince.
- The bride's bouquet and 30 buttonholes for the guests failed to turn up at the couple's home.
- The bride's choice of bouquet and the bridegroom's buttonhole are made from fresh flowers.
- As for the hired morning suit complete with cravat and matching buttonhole, alas, there was nothing I could have done about that.
- Flowers for Julie's bouquet and her partner's buttonhole are included.
Synonyms bouquet, bunch, posy, nosegay, corsage
verbˈbʌt(ə)nhəʊlˈbətnˌhoʊl [with object]1informal Attract the attention of and detain (someone) in conversation, typically against their will. reporters buttonhole officials coming out of the press secretary's office Example sentencesExamples - It was in the ‘Sensation’ show that he buttonholed me and asked ‘What's all this about then?’
- I needn't have worried, because Forrest cut such a jovial and outgoing figure that I briefly wondered if I had buttonholed the wrong man.
- He had consulted female relatives and older women in his village and buttonholed family members in other towns in a quest for leads.
- Around the adjacent display of scientifically-valuable spinning tops and dinosaur models stood a man buttonholing people to get signatures on a petition to save the place.
- Don't laugh - people who make enclosures have buttonholed me at trade shows and now I'm persuaded that the enclosure is more than just a box.
- I've just spent the past hour or so buttonholing people wandering around and asking them what they think of the new products.
- Registration clerks based in public places throughout Nunavut have been buttonholing voters for the past two months, recording their names and addresses for entry into a permanent voters' registry stored in a computer database.
- Another guest then buttonholes me in another corner to complain about the wedding he was at last week.
- He buttonholed me by the shops and gave me the story of his life.
- Next we buttonholed a ten-year-old boy who just did not understand why he was offered a bottle of beer when all he wanted was an exercise book to do his homework.
- In one of the book's most moving passages, Power describes Lemkin forlornly stalking the passages of the UN, dishevelled and faint from hunger, buttonholing any delegates or journalists who would listen.
- After that it takes Kernaghan a half-hour to get out of the hall as people keep buttonholing him.
- You may occasionally be accosted in a public place by an attaccabottoni, a doleful bore who buttonholes people and tells sad, pointless tales.
- Over subsequent days I buttonholed musicians in precincts and plazas in an attempt to discover if the busking community as a whole was, like indigent Eddie, experiencing lean times.
- But now, as Kurt and I moved tentatively toward where Pam had buttonholed him, Murdoch seemed not only unaccompanied but alone.
- After he talked to me, he prowled the university halls buttonholing random students and asking them questions.
- That extraordinary relaxed style with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other as he buttonholed us with wonderful jokes and stories is the image that we shall remember.
- He was really getting desperate when, eventually, he started thinking clearly and buttonholed the mother of the doll owner at playschool.
- When Congress convened, wealthy dealers in securities swarmed around Federal Hall on Wall Street, buttonholing members and trying to ferret out the details of Hamilton's program.
- What noun sums up the inescapable bore who buttonholes you to make a pitch or unload on you an interminable tale of woe?
Synonyms accost, speak to, talk to, call to, shout to, hail, initiate a discussion with 2Make buttonholes in (a garment). Example sentencesExamples - The edges are buttonholed all around.
- When the contacts on the presser foot ride over the markers, a circuit is completed and proper steps in the buttonholing sequence are initiated.
- Roman cutwork or Colbert embroidery is one of the prettiest forms of buttonholing.
- This class also includes units mainly engaged in providing clothing trade services such as hem stitching, basque knitting or buttonholing.
Definition of buttonhole in US English: buttonholenounˈbətnˌhoʊlˈbətnˌhōl 1A slit made in a garment to receive a button for fastening. Example sentencesExamples - Check for welted buttonholes; they normally look like mail slots.
- Details like workmanship, buttons, buttonholes, cuffs, and seams are usually good indicators of the item's quality and authenticity. where to find the goods
- Truth is, the best shirts made in recent years have all had two buttonholes on each cuff.
- Buttons and buttonholes should sit inside the topstitching, never overlap it.
- Touches such as real cuff buttonholes or hand-finished lapels now come into play.
- Attach a heavier than normal interfacing scrap (or two layers of interfacing) on the garment wrong side before constructing the buttonhole.
- Miller began hooking small buttons into buttonholes down at the top of the skirt and continued up the bodice, pulling the fabric tightly to smooth out all the wrinkles.
- If you are planning on making buttonholes, then interface the center front edges of both front pieces.
- Arrange the flowers in a cascade from the right front shoulder seam down the center front, working around the buttonhole.
- Another approach is to take a shirt that fits you perfectly and determine the distance between the middle of its collar button to the far end of the buttonhole.
- Unlike the handsaw, which was refined over time, the button and its buttonhole simply appeared in northern Europe in the thirteenth century - true works of an anonymous inventive genius.
- Although the bar tack is frequently the buttonhole of choice, many machines can make rounded and keyhole buttonholes, as well as eyelets.
- On the center front of a garment, horizontal buttonholes are the most secure and help prevent the opening from gaping.
- The pattern will indicate placement for buttons and buttonholes but final locations are best determined after the pattern is altered and fitted to you.
- It should be worn on the outside of the buttonhole, and not in it.
- Her hands easily slid the first large white buttons out of the buttonhole.
- It usually presents a double row of buttons with a single row of buttonholes.
- In the course of ten classes she would learn to hem, fell seams, draw threads, gather stitches, edge buttonholes, sew on buttons, make herringbone stitches, darn holes, tuck pleats, and mark linen.
- Test-stitch buttonholes before stitching on the garment.
- Make the samples on the same number of fabric and interfacing layers that are in the garment where the buttonholes are located.
- 1.1British A boutonnière.
Example sentencesExamples - ‘I know he has nothing to do with this,’ said Jamal Awadallah, who was wearing a red, white and blue Together We Stand buttonhole.
- Flowers for Julie's bouquet and her partner's buttonhole are included.
- The bride's choice of bouquet and the bridegroom's buttonhole are made from fresh flowers.
- As for the hired morning suit complete with cravat and matching buttonhole, alas, there was nothing I could have done about that.
- Just before slipping into the back seat of the car, gardener Tom would pick a flower for his boss' buttonhole.
- But they have as much and as little to do with gardens as a buttonhole or a bridal bouquet.
- A Shrivenham florist made a wedding at Cricklade a happy event by stepping in after a Swindon firm failed to deliver the bride's bouquet and 30 buttonholes for guests.
- John was a colourful figure, with a predilection for striped blazers, white silk dinner jackets, hats, buttonholes, and club ties, of which he had a magnificent collection.
- Both children received a special cup, as well as a posy of flowers for the princess and a buttonhole for the prince.
- Brenda Fitzell and Lesley Irvine were thanked for the table flowers and birthday buttonholes.
- The bride's bouquet and 30 buttonholes for the guests failed to turn up at the couple's home.
- Corbett later recalled that belts, coats, hats, and canes, and flowers from buttonholes - the accoutrements of gentlemen - are all flung his way.
- The campaign centres on the sale of silk buttonhole daffodils and bunches of fresh daffodils by over 5,000 volunteers countrywide.
Synonyms bouquet, bunch, posy, nosegay, corsage
verbˈbətnˌhoʊlˈbətnˌhōl [with object]1informal Attract the attention of and detain (someone) in conversation, typically against his or her will. reporters buttonhole officials coming out of the press secretary's office Example sentencesExamples - I've just spent the past hour or so buttonholing people wandering around and asking them what they think of the new products.
- It was in the ‘Sensation’ show that he buttonholed me and asked ‘What's all this about then?’
- But now, as Kurt and I moved tentatively toward where Pam had buttonholed him, Murdoch seemed not only unaccompanied but alone.
- What noun sums up the inescapable bore who buttonholes you to make a pitch or unload on you an interminable tale of woe?
- Registration clerks based in public places throughout Nunavut have been buttonholing voters for the past two months, recording their names and addresses for entry into a permanent voters' registry stored in a computer database.
- Around the adjacent display of scientifically-valuable spinning tops and dinosaur models stood a man buttonholing people to get signatures on a petition to save the place.
- Don't laugh - people who make enclosures have buttonholed me at trade shows and now I'm persuaded that the enclosure is more than just a box.
- In one of the book's most moving passages, Power describes Lemkin forlornly stalking the passages of the UN, dishevelled and faint from hunger, buttonholing any delegates or journalists who would listen.
- He buttonholed me by the shops and gave me the story of his life.
- After he talked to me, he prowled the university halls buttonholing random students and asking them questions.
- He was really getting desperate when, eventually, he started thinking clearly and buttonholed the mother of the doll owner at playschool.
- He had consulted female relatives and older women in his village and buttonholed family members in other towns in a quest for leads.
- That extraordinary relaxed style with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other as he buttonholed us with wonderful jokes and stories is the image that we shall remember.
- I needn't have worried, because Forrest cut such a jovial and outgoing figure that I briefly wondered if I had buttonholed the wrong man.
- Another guest then buttonholes me in another corner to complain about the wedding he was at last week.
- After that it takes Kernaghan a half-hour to get out of the hall as people keep buttonholing him.
- You may occasionally be accosted in a public place by an attaccabottoni, a doleful bore who buttonholes people and tells sad, pointless tales.
- Over subsequent days I buttonholed musicians in precincts and plazas in an attempt to discover if the busking community as a whole was, like indigent Eddie, experiencing lean times.
- Next we buttonholed a ten-year-old boy who just did not understand why he was offered a bottle of beer when all he wanted was an exercise book to do his homework.
- When Congress convened, wealthy dealers in securities swarmed around Federal Hall on Wall Street, buttonholing members and trying to ferret out the details of Hamilton's program.
Synonyms accost, speak to, talk to, call to, shout to, hail, initiate a discussion with 2Make slits for receiving buttons in (a garment). Example sentencesExamples - When the contacts on the presser foot ride over the markers, a circuit is completed and proper steps in the buttonholing sequence are initiated.
- This class also includes units mainly engaged in providing clothing trade services such as hem stitching, basque knitting or buttonholing.
- The edges are buttonholed all around.
- Roman cutwork or Colbert embroidery is one of the prettiest forms of buttonholing.
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