buttery
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I took a bite of the buttery Texas toast and the crinkle-cut fries, then dipped them into the creamy, peppery Cane’s Sauce, which tasted something like pickled ranch.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
The meat was packed with beefy, buttery and umami flavors, without the iron bite of other steaks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
His tenor saxophone’s tone grows more appealingly buttery with each passing year, yet his phrasing has lost none of its urgency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Keyla Marquez, our fashion director at large, asked, turning to me from inside the buttery dome, glass of Champagne in hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
A buttery ray of sunlight beamed through a crack in the roof.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
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Raffan tucked into supermarket meal deals and butteries - a "really dense, stodgy" Scottish pastry - but describes cold custard as his "secret weapon".
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2023
Provender was in the butteries, coal within the bins.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Between classes I drink cups of coffee with them and eat doughnuts, sitting in various common rooms and butteries and coffee shops.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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Battels, bat′lz, n.pl. an Oxford term signifying accounts for provisions received from college kitchens and butteries: applied generally to the whole of the sums for tuition, &c., charged in college accounts.—v.i.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
I gave in my name at the butteries as candidate for fellowship, but was informed in a day or two that I should not be allowed to sit.
From Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy by George Biddell Airy