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单词 button boy
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button boy
button boy n. Obsolete a manservant (usually in livery); a pageboy; cf. boy (also man, etc.) in buttons at Phrases 7a and buttons n. 1.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [noun] > liveried > boy > page
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button boy1844
buttons1848
pageboy1859
1844 Hood's Mag. Jan. 65 Elaborately prepared impromptus..ready for adorning ‘the virgin page’. (I don't mean the button-boy).
1876 R. Broughton Joan I. i. xii. 250 Servants do despise governesses..; the button-boy never would answer her bell when she rang.
1913 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 700/2 The glorious army of caddies and button boys, the little pages and messengers of all sorts.
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