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button-down shirt 		but·ton-down  (btn-doun) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:
  1. Having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons: a button-down shirt.
  2. also but·toned-down  (btnd-) KEY  Conservative, conventional, or unimaginative: "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business" (Newsweek).



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