Definition of "buttoning" [buttoning]

• Present participle of button. (verb)

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• "Whatever be his undertaking – an exercise for the senses, an exercise in buttoning up or lacing together, or washing dishes – it is all one and the same."
• ""I really don't like living at school," Anna murmurs in English, buttoning and unbuttoning her sweater absently as the other girls flutter bed sheets in the air."
• "That dress looks lovely, but I shudder at the notion of buttoning something under my breasts."