What is "buttonless"

Usage examples of "buttonless".

For the ragged-trousered man, with practically buttonless blue shirt and greasy e-stained torn coat held together by one string-suspended cloth button, unshaven face carrying beard a half-inch long, and cloth cap on one side of shaggy, thinning half-greyed head, was scraping away, with the broken blade of a dullish looking barley knife, the rounded nubbin of what had once been the end of a loaf of bread.

Captain had got rid of his uncomfortable shirt, and now was once more in his element, turning round with loud oaths in an old pair of pants and a buttonless under-flannel.

The buttonless shirt bulged in stiff waves beneath his unbuttoned vest.

He clutched the two sides of the tent flap beneath his chin, like a buttonless overcoat.

Pieces of it fell as she lifted her skirts and pulled up her underclothes, holding the buttonless waistband of her pantaloons in place.

Wifelike, she straightened his now mostly buttonless shirt into some semblance of propriety.

Yet his father stood before him like a small, battered bird, the buttonless shirt folded gently over his thin chest and the worn leather slippers searching out the floorboards hesitantly when he walked.

Her dirty toes and fingers were delicate and elegant, and a necklace of amethysts gleamed under the torn, buttonless jacket.

When it rained Sullivan put on her old buttonless trench-coat even though we were inside the camper.

He loaded it up like a truck with his buttonless wardrobe, and took off for Midland City.

She dressed in dark jeans and a matching cashmere turtleneck, then added a long, buttonless cardigan in the same ebony color.

He wore a stylish buttonless suit, his head was shaved and he wore a diamond stud in his nose.

Gould lay in buttonless pajamas on a tousled bed beneath a punkah that had ceased to swing, unshaven, staring at the two intruders with eyes whose pupils were reduced to pin-points, conveying only mirage to the poisoned brain behind.