[pl. of BUTTON sb. used as a sing.]
1. A boy in buttons, a page. colloq.
1848. Thackeray, Dinner at Timmins’s, I. ii. More than fourteen years older than little Buttons.
1855. Fraser’s Mag., LI. 433. He was a tiger—‘a buttons.’
1879. Daily News, 6 March, 5/6. The variety of domestic known as a ‘Buttons.’
2. A popular name for the tansy and other plants: see BUTTON sb. 3.
