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butterless

  • a word derived from butter.
    butter
    noun
    the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.

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The rationing of World War I gave us the eggless, butterless, milkless cake.

From New York Times Mar. 4, 2019

Lousy outcome, but an extremely exciting match to wash the taste of that dry, butterless scone that was England-Italy out of my mouth.

From Washington Post Jun. 26, 2012

Nazi authorities urged the making of "eggless and butterless cookies."

From Time Magazine Archive

It's no longer cheap but it is eggless, milkless and butterless.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just the same, she is bound to go dry within a year, and then we will have a milkless, creamless, butterless period for a while, until the bull calf grows up.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien