"But when the pea-coat, cap, and comforter lifted themselves up again, Florence gently moved towards them; and she and Walter taking them off, disclosed the old Instrument-maker, a little thinner and more careworn than of old, in his old Welsh wig and his old coffee-coloured coat and basket buttons, with his old infallible chronometer ticking away in his pocket.
I can remember having a leather coat that had buttons with a steel disk, over which there was a web of leather strips a quarter of an inch wide woven like basket work. But I never heard them so called.
