butterine

British  

/ ˈbʌtəˌriːn, -rɪn /

noun

1. an artificial butter made partly from milk

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Example Sentences

The Chronicle vowed "to tell the truth about breakfasts of stale bread and rancid butterine, the watery tea, the pallid chicory decoction which serves for coffee, the crowded, dingy, and ill-ventilated dormitories".

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2014

Your recommendation of butterine for instance, would carry weight with some housekeepers who had never before thought of trying it and they would be grateful always for being shown how to cut their butter bill.

From Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest by McClure, Mary Jane

"I meant butterine," "corrected" the "sweat subject" hurriedly.

From The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands by Duffield, J. W.

These are all made from animal fat, chiefly that of beef, and are known as butterine, oleomargarine, and by other trade names.

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

They tell ME," the workman answered—"they tell ME she's goin' to be a butterine factory again.

From Alice Adams by Tarkington, Booth