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Definition of Butter dish
1. Noun. A small dish (often with a cover) for holding butter at the table.
Definition of Butter dish
1. Noun. A specialised dish in which butter is served. It would normally have a base with a separate fitting lid with its own handle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Butter dish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Connoisseur by Bonnell Thornton, George Colman, Mr Town, George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1904)
"The butter-dish shown in the illustration has, of course, a history which we ...
This butter-dish has been ascribed to Enoch Wood, a famous Burslem potter, ..."
2. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Mass Boston Cooking School (Boston, Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1905)
"Chill before piling into a butter-dish. At those meals where butter is ...
The waitress may cut and serve, the butter-dish resting meanwhile on a tray, ..."
3. Conscious Motherhood: Or, The Earliest Unfolding of the Child in the Cradle by William T Preyer, Emma Marwedel (1889)
"I can make it, too" ; and so speaking, he pressed a butter dish in the sand table.
... Then the children took the butter dish to look at it, and turning it ..."
4. Good Manners by Eliza M ] [Lavin (1889)
"A pat may be placed upon each plate before dinner is announced, or it may be
served afterward from a butter-dish, upon which are set as many of the forms as ..."
5. Illustrated Catalogue and Classified Book List of the Northwestern Library by Northwestern library association (1899)
"butter dish Plain Finish. Price, $1.40. N0.016 Syrup and Plate. Satin Engraved.
$1.10. ... 015 butter dish. Satin Engraved. Price, 98c. No 08 butter dish. ..."
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