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button-down
[buht-n-doun]
adjective
(of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
(of a shirt) having a button-down collar.
(of a shirt) having buttons down the front from the collar to the bottom.
Also buttoned-down (especially of attitudes, opinions, etc.) extremely conventional; unimaginative.
button-down
adjective
(of a collar) having points that are fastened to the garment with buttons
(of a shirt) having a button-down collar
Also: buttoned-down.conventional or conservative
a button-down corporate culture
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of button-down1
Example Sentences
Hundreds of eighth-graders in freshly ironed button-down shirts and flowing dresses filed into Andrew Carnegie Middle School with their families Tuesday morning in high spirits.
Dressed casually in a plaid gray button-down shirt and beige pants, he drinks iced tea at a back-corner booth at Swingers Diner in West Hollywood.
Lynch was wearing his uniform of the period — worn khakis, white button-down shirt, black blazer.
Jimmy Carter wore a button-down shirt in Khartoum.
If that wasn’t clear from the rumpled blue button-down he wears in almost every scene, it’s in his delight when Romy books a posh suite and he gasps, “There’s a whole living room in here.”
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