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buttery

[buht-uh-ree] / ˈbʌt ə ri /
ADJECTIVE
containing butter
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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

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

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

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




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