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Brewer's: Button-hole
(A). A flower inserted in the button-hole of a coat.
“In fine weather he [the driver of a hansom] will sport a button-hole- generally a dahlia, or some flower of that ilk.”— Nineteenth Century (March, 1893, p. 473).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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