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# buttonhole

«buttonhole» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small slit in a coat or shirt through which a button is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (buttonholes); verb (buttonhole, buttonholes, buttonholed, buttonholing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A buttonhole is a small slit in a coat or shirt through which a button is pushed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttonhole/#m1)

2) A buttonhole is a flower worn in the slit of a coat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttonhole/#m2)

3) To buttonhole someone is to stop them and make them listen to you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttonhole/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a flower placed in the buttonhole of a coat, as in a picture where «a thistle-flower was painted in the buttonhole»

### examples

- She put a rose in her buttonhole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttonhole/#x1)
- The coat had a neat buttonhole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttonhole/#x2)
- He buttonholed me to talk about his dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttonhole/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «buttonhole» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buttonhole/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.