subs. phr. (old).—A child; spec. a bastard.

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  1620.  FLETCHER, The Chances, I., v.

        You will be wiser one day, when you have purchased
A bevy of these BUTTER-PRINTS.

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  1639.  BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Wit without Money, V., iv. I hope she has brought me no BUTTER-PRINT along with her to lay to my charge.

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  1709.  The British Apollo, II., 46, 3, 2.

              Her Girl and her Boy,
      For Patterns employ,
To make little BUTTER-PRINTS by.

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