butterine
Britishnoun
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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
"No, I sold butter and butterine and a few other things."
From The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands by J. W. Duffield
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 Marion Harris Neil
One of the strictest Government inspections is on butterine.
From Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest by Mary Jane McClure
"That great big, enormous ole dead butterine factory across the street from our lot," the man said.
From Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
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