buttery
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At its best, it can follow down the path of a very good Chardonnay that’s mineral and has good acidity—not that oaky, buttery stuff that turned you against the grape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The best brunches in L.A. involve buttery biscuits in Glassell Park, live jazz in View Park-Windsor Hills and Hong Kong French toast in Koreatown, plus much more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
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
I’d been able to smell it from upstairs: the scents of buttery basmati rice and fesenjoon had flooded the whole house.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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
In the butteries and cellar were plentiful provisions of food.
From Red Eve by Henry Rider Haggard
From one side of the long living-room extended kitchen, laundry; servants’ rooms and servants’ dining-room; an endless maze of butteries, pantries, sheds.
From Out of the Air by Inez Haynes Gillmore
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