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n. (hook and eye English)
Usage examples of "hooks and eyes".
He was reminded of the days when, as a child in their yard at home, dressed in a braided hood and a black sheepskin fastened with hooks and eyes sewn in the curly fleece, he cut the dazzling snow into cubes and pyramids and cream puffs and fortresses and the cities of cave dwellers.
Standing side by side, they had turned their top sections so that their hooks and eyes confronted one another briefly.
And Minnie makes her listener explode into peals of laughter with a graphic description of a patient whom Minnie in her nurse's function had to undress, and then dress, a nightmare of fallen flabby flesh like collapsed bread dough, hundreds of hooks and eyes to latch up in the woman's whalebone corset and brassiere.
Gassy came forward to help her with the hooks and eyes of her skirt.
Sparrow flipped the material up to show tiny hooks and eyes, oddly enough made of cling vine and ironwood instead of metal.
Judson called his awkward arrangement of hooks and eyes a clasp locker.
Holding it across her chest she tore it half through and threw it across the cabin, then she took the fastenings of her bodice in both hands and ripped them down almost to her waist, the hooks and eyes hung on the torn threads of cotton.
After dropping the pelisse to the deck, she took control of the tiller, displaying to him, where dozens of hooks and eyes and pins held her gown fitted to her body.
She stripped away the gorget and began breaking the tack-welded hooks and eyes that closed the mail shirt.