buttonable

Updated: July 1, 2026

Are the wounded any better looked after because a tired orderly has spent some of his off-duty rest-hour in rubbing metal buttons which would have been every bit as buttonable had they been made of bone? Many were the debates, in our hut, over the button problem.

Ward Muir - Observations of an Orderly: Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital