英语词汇“to put into buttons”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

> as lemmas

to put (a person) into buttons

†b. to put (a person) into buttons: to dress (a person) in a manservant's or pageboy's livery. Hence: to place (a person) in domestic service, as a manservant or pageboy. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [verb (transitive)] > make a page of

to put (a person) into buttons1846

1846 W. M. Thackeray Snobs of Eng. xxxix, in Punch 28 Nov. 225/2 We have a coachman and a helper, but we don't put the latter into buttons, nor make them wait at table.

1876 Belgravia July 77 A..crafty young scamp,..he was put into buttons and made the page-boy of the establishment.

1898 Quiver Jan. 491/2 His father and grandfather before him had been butlers..and.., when quite a lad, he had been put into buttons.

extracted from buttonn.

as lemmas

单词	to put into buttons
释义	> as lemmas to put (a person) into buttons †b. to put (a person) into buttons: to dress (a person) in a manservant's or pageboy's livery. Hence: to place (a person) in domestic service, as a manservant or pageboy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [verb (transitive)] > make a page of to put (a person) into buttons1846 1846 W. M. Thackeray Snobs of Eng. xxxix, in Punch 28 Nov. 225/2 We have a coachman and a helper, but we don't put the latter into buttons, nor make them wait at table. 1876 Belgravia July 77 A..crafty young scamp,..he was put into buttons and made the page-boy of the establishment. 1898 Quiver Jan. 491/2 His father and grandfather before him had been butlers..and.., when quite a lad, he had been put into buttons. extracted from buttonn. < as lemmas
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