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buttery
CIDE DICTIONARY
buttery, a.
Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter. [1913 Webster]
buttery, n. [OE. botery, botry; cf. LL. botaria wine vessel; also OE. botelerie, fr. F. bouteillerie, fr. boutellie bottle. Not derived from butter. See Bottle a hollow vessel, Butt a cask.].
- An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept. [1913 Webster]"All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north." [1913 Webster]
- A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students. [1913 Webster]"And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar." [1913 Webster]
- A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. Weale. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
buttery, n. (pl. -ies) a room, esp. in a college, where provisions are kept and supplied to students etc.
buttery, adj. like, containing, or spread with butter.
Derivative
butteriness n.
ROGET THESAURUS
buttery
Store
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