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button-down

[buht-n-doun]

adjective

  1. (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.

  2. (of a shirt) having a button-down collar.

  3. (of a shirt) having buttons down the front from the collar to the bottom.

  4. Also buttoned-down (especially of attitudes, opinions, etc.) extremely conventional; unimaginative.



button-down

adjective

  1. (of a collar) having points that are fastened to the garment with buttons

  2. (of a shirt) having a button-down collar

  3. Also: buttoned-down.conventional or conservative

    a button-down corporate culture

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of button-down1

An Americanism dating back to 1930–35
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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.

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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.

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Lynch was wearing his uniform of the period — worn khakis, white button-down shirt, black blazer.

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Jimmy Carter wore a button-down shirt in Khartoum.

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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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