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
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
"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
They tell ME," the workman answered—"they tell ME she's goin' to be a butterine factory again.
From Alice Adams by Tarkington, Booth
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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