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Spell check of buttonhole
Correct spelling: buttonhole
Synonyms:
petition, knit, invite, breast pocket, beseech, baste, embroider, quilt, appeal, cross-stitch, purl, address, plead, armhole, accost, coattails, approach, bloom, greet, flowery, seam, collar, centerpiece, beg, entreat, solicit, nosegay, backstitch, apply, request, tack, button hole, bouquet, bunch, care label, sew, entice, talk at, lobby, boutonniere, full-blown, fresh, bib, arm, implore, supplicate, chain-stitch, crochet, bind, corner, bodice.
Examples of usage:
1) The cattlemen, cowboys, and townspeople were packed close around the rear of the train, their backs to the wind and the disaster sweeping down upon them, their browned faces upturned to the sleek, carefully groomed man in the light- gray suit, with a flaunting, prairie sunflower ostentatiously displayed in his buttonhole and with his campaign smile upon his lips and dull boredom looking out of his eyes. - "Lonesome Land", B. M. Bower.
2) A program from the 1939 fair lists among the categories " three summer squash," " best adult clothing," " best buttonhole," and " best Holstein heifer." - "Frying Pan Farm", Elizabeth Brown Pryor.
3) He pulled it out of his buttonhole and tossed it into the fire- place. - "The Greater Inclination", Edith Wharton.