button-down

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  1. unimaginatively conventional“a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business — Newsweek”Synonyms: buttoned-downconservative
  2. of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons“Brooks Brothers button-down shirts”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

buttoned \buttoned\ adj. furnished with buttons or something buttonlike. Opposite of unbuttoned. [Narrower terms: botonee, botonnee; button-down; closed] [WordNet 1.5]
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