while eighteen-button gloves have three small pearl buttons… - Judith Martin

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while eighteen-button gloves have three small pearl buttons each at the musketeer (which everyone knows is the opening at the wrist), there are, indeed, eighteen buttons on each in length. That button is a standard of measurement of approximately one inch. The approximate part is because it is a French standard of measurement.

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Judith Martin (September 13, 1938 - ) American advice columnist (under the pseudonym "Miss Manners")

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