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Definition of Brass buttons

1. Noun. South African herb with golden-yellow globose flower heads; naturalized in moist areas along coast of California; cultivated as an ornamental.

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Literary usage of Brass buttons

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

1. 1795-1895. One Hundred Years of American Commerce ...: A History of American by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1895)
"In brass buttons a vast number of styles and designs have been produced in this country, one firm alone making 5000 varieties of army, navy, railroad, ..."

2. Old Sporting Prints by Ralph. Nevill (1908)
"A coat of vernal green, embellished with large brass buttons, breeches of brown cloth with gaiters to match, together with a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat, ..."

3. Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal Relations by Henry Theophilus Finck (1887)
"Hence the first and most important hint to those who would win a wora.in's Love is : Put brass buttons on your coat, have it dyed blue, and wear epaulettes ..."

4. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1900)
"It was in Waterbury that brass buttons were turned out in tremendous quantities and with great rapidity to supply the demand for them for the soldiers' ..."

5. The North Pacific Surveying and Exploring Expedition Or, My Last Cruise by Alexander Wylly Habersham (1857)
"... Hartman and myself bartered away a number of brass buttons for several articles of religious worship, and returned on board in high glee. ..."

6. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"He said he could not be positive, for that man had a green coat and brass buttons. Fletcher. I cannot tell whether it was that night. ..."

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