Etymology
Origin of buttony
Example Sentences
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And you would sit on one of the four little podgy, buttony, tasselly red chairs that are ranged on the other side of the table facing the sofa.
From Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth
Her lady's-maid and the chariot, her visiting book, and the buttony page became soon as familiar to Amelia as the humble routine of Brompton.
From Boys and girls from Thackeray by Sweetser, Kate Dickinson
There were embroidered pillows on the buttony Chesterfield, lace shades to the electric lights, and be-rosebudded liberty silk curtains.
From The Halo by Justice, B. Martin
"Isn't he a nice bright doctor?" said Minnie; "he shines so shiny, and he's so very buttony; I think his buttons are splendid."
From The Fairy Nightcaps by Fanny, Aunt
I lobbed it far and wide over the wall, and it fell noiselessly and quite in the middle of Mr. Trumpington's most buttony calceolaria-bed.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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