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Buttony   Listen
Buttony

adjective
1.
Small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button.  Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttonlike.  "Black buttony eyes"
2.
Ornamented with many buttons.





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"Buttony" Quotes from Famous Books



... heads, would now and then awake. The creature came and vanished like an undefined sense of evil at hand. But it was only Richard who thought that; nothing such crossed the starry clearness of Barbara's soul. Her skirt made a buttony noise with the heads of the rib-grass. Her red cloak was dark in the moonlight. She threw back the hood, and coming out of its shadow like another moon from a cloud, walked the earth with bare head. Her hands too ...
— There & Back • George MacDonald


Words linked to "Buttony" :   bright, decorated, adorned, button


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