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Definition of Butterless
1. [adj]
Literary usage of Butterless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"She hated her breakfast of butterless rye bread and black coffee, and did not
thrive on what she substituted—a couple of green apples and a ginger cake. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"The paupers were praying for their daily bread, hard, and dry, and butterless ;
for forgiveness for trespasses grosser and blacker perhaps than ours; ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"... pay their services ; in such payment affording the possible luxury of an
incidental chop, to vary the dietary of thrice-drawn tea-leaves and butterless ..."
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