Hypertext Webster Gateway: "buttons"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Buttons \But"tons\, n.
A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his
livery. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
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