Synonyms for buttery


Grammar : Adj
Spell : buht-uh-ree
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbʌt ə ri


Définition of buttery

Origin :
  • "resembling butter," late 14c., from butter (n.) + -y (2). Related: Butteriness.
  • adj containing butter
Example sentences :
  • 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.
  • Extract from : « The Universal Reciter » by Various
  • A staire-case into the Good-mans roomes ouer the Kitchin and Buttery.
  • Extract from : « The English Husbandman » by Gervase Markham
  • An inward cellar within the buttery, which may serue for a Larder.
  • Extract from : « The English Husbandman » by Gervase Markham
  • Then the musicians withdrew to the buttery, and were themselves feasted.
  • Extract from : « Christmas: Its Origin and Associations » by William Francis Dawson
  • Which performed, they, with the musick, are to return into the buttery.
  • Extract from : « Christmas: Its Origin and Associations » by William Francis Dawson
  • East of it is the kitchen, eleven by twenty feet, south of which is the buttery.
  • Extract from : « The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 » by Various
  • The phœnix,” she sighed, “the paragon, the nonpareil of the buttery.
  • Extract from : « The Lady of Loyalty House » by Justin Huntly McCarthy
  • At one end of the buttery there was a trap door in the floor.
  • Extract from : « The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat » by Arthur Scott Bailey
  • Often, after that, Mrs. Green discovered traces of the thief in the buttery.
  • Extract from : « The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat » by Arthur Scott Bailey
  • One evening, after dark, Johnnie Green went into the buttery to get a pail.
  • Extract from : « The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat » by Arthur Scott Bailey

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