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sleeve-button (複数形 sleeve-buttons)

1. (dated) A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.
   • 1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter 35, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), 2nd edition, London: […] J. Osborn […], OCLC 1181155068, page 314:

     […] I took my leave of Morgan with many tears, after we had exchanged our sleeve-buttons as remembrances of each other.

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, London: Bradbury and Evans  […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:

     “How those sleeve-buttons will suit me!” thought he, as he fixed a pair on the fat pudgy wrists of Mr. Sedley. “I long for sleeve-buttons; and the Captain’s boots with brass spurs, in the next room, corbleu! what an effect they will make in the Allee Verte!”

   • 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “27”, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 166605526:

     He wore […] projecting cuffs, fastened with large oxidized silver sleeve-buttons, bearing the device of a dog’s face—English pug.

   • 1935, Lloyd C. Douglas, Green Light, London: Peter Davies, Chapter 8, p. 137,^[1]

     The old man was fumbling with his sleeve button. Parker bared the arm, polished a little spot with a wisp of cotton saturated with alcohol, grasped the pathetically flabby skin with experienced fingers; and, tipping up the syringe, pushed the piston gently to expel the air.