button-down

Example Sentences

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But before ripping the trees out, they planted replacement conocarpus trees, or buttonwoods, nearby and gave them time to grow.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2021

Sycamores are also called buttonwoods because they’re good for making buttons.

From New York Times • May 13, 2020

The house was a large two-story structure, fronting east, painted white, with great chimneys at either end, shaded by buttonwoods and gum-trees, with a peach-orchard in rear.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

Next it invaded the principal street of the quaint old village, and played the mischief with the tall elms and the venerable buttonwoods that stood on either side like sentinels guarding the highway.

From The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Durivage, Francis A. (Francis Alexander)

Looking from the old-fashioned windows of Mrs. Gouverneur's front parlor, he praised the beauty of the winter scene, and admired especially the spotted boles of the great buttonwoods in Washington Square.

From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Eggleston, Edward