What is the meaning of button-down?

adjective

  • Unimaginatively conventional."a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business- Newsweek
  • Of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons.
    • usage: "Brooks Brothers button-down shirts"
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