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brass buttons

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Noun1.brass buttons - South African herb with golden-yellow globose flower heads; naturalized in moist areas along coast of California; cultivated as an ornamental
flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
Cotula, genus Cotula - cosmopolitan herbs especially southern hemisphere; many used as ground covers


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It was a blue jacket with brass buttons, quite new.
An old man with a gray whisker under the chin and brass buttons on his pilot-cloth jacket, hurried up along the quay hailing my ship by name.
See Appendix A] appeared at the door in a spick-and-span new blue cloth uniform, decorated with shining brass buttons, and with bands of gold lace around his cap and wristbands; and he wore white gloves, too.
 
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