buttons

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CIDE DICTIONARY

buttonsn. 
     A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.  Dickens.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

buttons, n. colloq. a liveried page-boy.

Etymology
from the rows of buttons on his jacket

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