1. Having buttons, adorned with buttons; usually with defining words, as silver-, eight-buttoned.
1534. More, On the Passion, Wks. 1272/2. A beareward with his syluer buttened bawdrike.
1597. Sir R. Cecil, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., II. 234, III. 43. A longe robe of black velvett, well jeweld and buttond.
1713. Guardian, No. 113 (1756), II. 121. My silver-button’d coat.
1862. Mayhew, Crim. Prisons, 61. A custom-house officer in his brass-buttoned jacket.
1883. Truth, 31 May, 768/1. [Gloves] were all to be eight-buttoned.
b. Of persons: Wearing buttons.
1813. Moore, Post Bag, vi. 64. This buttoned nation.
1882. T. Hardy, Two on Tower, I. xiv. 232. The buttoned boy.
c. Of a stick or a fencing-foil: Having a ‘button’ or knob at the end.
1648. Herrick, Hesper., I. 204. No black-bearded vigil from thy doore Beats with a button’d-staffe the poore.
1838. Fraser’s Mag., XVII. 307. Safe and well-buttoned foils.
2. Fastened with buttons; with one’s clothes fastened with buttons. Also with up.
1826. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. (1863), 298. The buttoned-up crosses.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev. (1871), II. IV. vii. 153. National Guards rank themselves, half-buttoned.
1863. Thornbury, True as Steel, III. 292. With a buttoned velvet cap drawn over his ears.
