Definition of Buttoners

1. buttoner [n] - See also: buttoner

Literary usage of Buttoners

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Patent Cases: Decided in the Circuit Courts of the United States by Hubert Ashley Banning, Henry Arden (1882)
"He afterward continued to manufacture and sell buttoners differing very slightly in form from those previously made by him, but clearly embodying the ..."

2. The World of London by John Fisher Murray (1844)
"They are buttoners by profession; by which you will not understand us to indicate button-makers: ..."

3. Blue Book by Tiffany and Company (1893)
"Glove Buttoners: Ivory, pearl, and shell 50 cts. to 7.50 Silver 60 ... Shoe Buttoners: Ivory, plain and carved 1.50 to 30. Pearl 3. to 8. Shell 3. ..."

4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1876)
"They display samples of every size and style ol goods in gold pens, penholders, pencil-cases, charm-pencils, toothpicks, shoe buttoners, etc. ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"Fastening the clothing with buttons originated the Buttons and Buttoners; with buckles, the Buckles and ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"Fastening the clothing with buttons originated the Buttons and Buttoners ; with buckles, the Buckles and ..."

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