butter
noun
the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
butterless
-
a word derived from
butter.
Example Sentences
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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
In Ottawa's Chateau Laurier, the only living ex-President of the U.S. sat down to a butterless, breadless, sugarless, cream-less, potatoless, meatless dinner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Neville Chamberlain evolved a sugarless, butterless "Downing Street cake."
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
