buttery
adjective
like, containing, or spread with butter.
butteries
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pluralof buttery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Raffan tucked into supermarket meal deals and butteries - a "really dense, stodgy" Scottish pastry - but describes cold custard as his "secret weapon".
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2023
Provender was in the butteries, coal within the bins.
From Time Magazine Archive
Between classes I drink cups of coffee with them and eat doughnuts, sitting in various common rooms and butteries and coffee shops.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
They include an old dining-hall of much picturesqueness, kitchens, pantries, and butteries, some of them only lighted by very narrow windows.
From Yorkshire by Gordon Home
"As for quality," quoth Sancho, "my master is a person of as good quality as the proudest of them all, if you go to that, but his profession allows of no larders nor butteries."
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
