BUTTONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buttoned mean? 

• BUTTONED (adjective)
  The adjective BUTTONED has 1 sense:

1. furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike

  Familiarity information: BUTTONED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUTTONED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike

Synonyms:

buttoned; fastened

Similar:

botonee; botonnee ((of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm)

button-down (of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons)

Antonym:

unbuttoned (not buttoned)

 Context examples 

Yes, I was right: it was Mr. Brocklehurst, buttoned up in a surtout, and looking longer, narrower, and more rigid than ever.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But when I buttoned my jacket, that was not much.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You haven't half buttoned one cuff, do it at once.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One was buttoned only in the two lower buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and fifth.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was dressed in a single-breasted black coat buttoned up, a pair of leather pantaloons stretched tightly across his broad thighs, polished Hessian boots, and a huge white neckcloth.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here we paid off our cab, and with our great coats buttoned up, for it was bitterly cold, and the wind seemed to blow through us, we walked along the edge of the heath.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Martin had heard Herbert Spencer quoted several times in the park, but one afternoon a disciple of Spencer's appeared, a seedy tramp with a dirty coat buttoned tightly at the throat to conceal the absence of a shirt.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Please arrange your thoughts and let me know, in their due sequence, exactly what those events are which have sent you out unbrushed and unkempt, with dress boots and waistcoat buttoned awry, in search of advice and assistance.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Traddles buttoned his coat with a determined air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)