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Meanings of buttone close in English

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Usage of buttone close in English
1
She wore a linen duster buttoned close to her chin.
The Forbidden Trail
2
He wore a brown hunting jacket buttoned close up to his neck with hartshorn buttons.
The Goose Man
3
But over the dress suit each wore a linen coat, buttoned close up to the neck.
The Rover Boys at College; Or, The Right Road and the Wrong
4
All but Miss Jessie, whose dress was a pearl velvet, buttoned close to her slender throat.
The Fat of the Land: The Story of an American Farm
5
He was dressed, despite the season, in an overcoat of extraordinary length, buttoned close round his neck.
A Husband by Proxy
6
He wore a black frock-coat, buttoned close, and his linen produced the effect of a conspicuous whiteness.
The Market-Place
7
His pea-jacket was buttoned close up under his chin, his hat drawn tight down over his forehead.
The Tides of Barnegat
8
His thin coat collar was buttoned close about his neck; his gloveless hands were wet and cold from the mist.
Jane Cable
9
With the group was a lieutenant, buttoned close in his gray coat,-onebutton gone, perhaps to make a breastpin for some fair traitorous bosom.
Pages from an Old Volume of Life; A Collection of Essays, 1857-1...
10
A close waistcoat, without sleeves, but having a neck like a shirt, buttoned close up to the top, with buttons, often of gold filigree.
The History of Sumatra / Containing An Account Of The Government...
11
Still I saw it was cold to others, for the women I passed were wrapped in shawls, and the men had their coats buttoned close.
The Professor
12
He always wore, in summer and winter, a long dusky gray coat, which buttoned close up to his neck and descended almost to his heels.
Framley Parsonage
13
Outside stood a man with his coat buttoned close about his throat-evidentlya gentleman-whoasked him politely for a sheet of paper and a pen.
Kennedy Square