button-hole

button-hole (plural button-holes)

1. Alternative form of buttonhole.
   • 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 130:

     Not far away is a factory in a rear yard where the factory inspector reports teams of tailors making men’s coats at an average of twenty-seven cents a coat, all complete except buttons and button-holes.

button-hole (third-person singular simple present button-holes, present participle button-holing, simple past and past participle button-holed)

1. Alternative form of buttonhole