buttery
1Origin of buttery
1buttery
2- Chiefly New England. a room or rooms in which the provisions, wines, and liquors of a household are kept; pantry; larder.
- a room in colleges, especially at Oxford and Cambridge universities, from which articles of food and drink are sold or dispensed to the students.
Origin of buttery
2Examples from the Web for buttery
Contemporary Examples of buttery
Depending on the producer, Champagne can also be highly cloyingly sweet, buttery, or round, or mineral.
The buttery, nutty, and sweet and salty all work together to form a balance of flavors.
There is more of a buttery and smooth taste profile with this wine.
But with unlimited access to the luxurious sandwiches, piled high with glistening meat, a buttery apocalypse of gluttony unfolded.
We recommend the buttery miso ramen, topped with a soft-boiled egg, scallions, and corn.
Historical Examples of buttery
And then jest as I was gettin' into a drowse, I heard the cat in the buttery, and I got up to let her out.
The Universal ReciterVarious
An inward cellar within the buttery, which may serue for a Larder.
The English HusbandmanGervase Markham
A staire-case into the Good-mans roomes ouer the Kitchin and Buttery.
The English HusbandmanGervase Markham
Then the musicians withdrew to the buttery, and were themselves feasted.
Christmas: Its Origin and AssociationsWilliam Francis Dawson
Which performed, they, with the musick, are to return into the buttery.
Christmas: Its Origin and AssociationsWilliam Francis Dawson
buttery
1- containing, like, or coated with butter
- informal grossly or insincerely flattering; obsequious
buttery
2- a room for storing foods or wines
- British (in some universities) a room in which food is supplied or sold to students