butterine
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
They tell ME," the workman answered—"they tell ME she's goin' to be a butterine factory again.
From Alice Adams by Tarkington, Booth
The three primary, solid cooking fats today are: There are numbers of substitutes for these, such as butterine, oleomargarine and "lard compounds."
From The Story of Crisco by Neil, Marion Harris
"Ah," said Rosebery, "Would you know where last I saw him, He was eating bread and butterine."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 13, 1887 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
Are you sure that was real butter, or was it just butterine?
From Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
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