Etymology
Origin of buttony
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The lady's maid and the chariot, the visiting-book and the buttony page, became soon as familiar to Amelia as the humble routine of Brompton.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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 Sir Owen Seaman
"Buttony—Buttony—why, confound you, sirra, send for a tailor, then, for he understands buttony."
From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
What that dear, brown driver with the red vest, the bobtailed, buttony coat, and the big yellow tassels dancing from his hat brim, thought of those two American damsels we shall never know.
From Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Louisa May Alcott
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