buttoning
English edit
Verb edit
buttoning
- present participle and gerund of button
Noun edit
buttoning (plural buttonings)
- A fastening with buttons.
- 1826, Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock:
- He threw himself as he spoke upon a chair, and indolently, but gracefully, received the kind offices of Albert, who undid the coarse buttonings of the leathern gamashes which defended his legs […]