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Buttoned-up   Listen
adjective
buttoned-up  adj.  
1.
Taciturn. Opposite of voluble. (British colloquial)
2.
Conservative in professional manner; as, employers are looking for buttoned-up types.





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"Buttoned-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... brown of face and robe, gliding noiselessly through wide market places in the blue shadows of hoary campaniles, searched those talc windows of ours with a curiosity that was pathetic. Young officers, with great dark eyes and slender figures tightly buttoned-up in grey-blue uniforms, visibly preened themselves as the car with the three veiled ladies would sweep round a corner; and really I think there must be something rather alluring about a passing glance from a pair of eyes in a face that will always remain a mystery. If I were a man I believe I ...
— My Friend the Chauffeur • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... joy at the incident of the previous night had served to rejuvenate my uncle, I know not, but he looked to me ten years younger when Lady Ellinor entered. How carefully the buttoned-up coat was brushed; how new and glossy was the black stock! The poor Captain was restored to his pride, and mighty proud he looked! with a glow on his cheek and a fire in his eye, his head thrown back, and ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... newspaper, rose from the pebbles with a ceremonious bow. His faded light hair was tinged with gray; he had a pinched hook nose; watery blue eyes, and an irresolute-looking mouth; he wore his shabby dress with an affectation of foppish gentility; an eye-glass dangled over his closely buttoned-up waistcoat, and he carried a ...
— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon


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