butterine
Britishnoun
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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
Are you sure that was real butter, or was it just butterine?
From Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
Bonnie Jim Campbell rode up the glen, But it wasn't to meet the butterine men; It wasn't Phil Armour he wanted to see, Nor Haines nor Crafts—though their friend was he.
From Hoosier Lyrics by Field, Eugene
The people of the United States also consume millions of pounds every year of butter substitutes and imitations, such as oleomargarine and butterine.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
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