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Definition of Buttery

1. Adjective. Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech. "Soapy compliments"

2. Noun. A small storeroom for storing foods or wines.

3. Adjective. Resembling or containing or spread with butter. "A rich buttery cake"

4. Noun. A teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals.

Definition of Buttery

1. a. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.

2. n. An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.

Definition of Buttery

1. Noun. A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom. ¹

2. Noun. (U.K.) A room in a university where snacks are sold. ¹

3. Adjective. Made with or tasting of butter. ¹

4. Adjective. Resembling butter in some way. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Buttery

1. containing butter [adj -TERIER, -TERIEST] / a wine cellar [n -TERIES]

Medical Definition of Buttery

1. Origin: OE. Botery, botry; cf. LL. Botaria wine vessel; also OE. Botelerie, fr. F. Bouteillerie, fr. Boutellie bottle. Not derived from butter. See Bottle a hollow vessel, Butt a cask. 1. An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept. "All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north." (Sir H. Wotton) 2. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students. "And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar." (E. Hall) 3. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. Buttery hatch, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Literary usage of Buttery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes: Including Letters of by Isaac Newton, J. Edleston, Roger Cotes (1850)
"These relics of Newton's household expenditure are extracted from two mutilated buttery Books in Trinity College Muniment Room. The Fellows' buttery Books ..."

2. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1860)
"Flesh yellowish, buttery, juicy, somewhat granular, with a angary, ... Flesh very fine, melting, buttery, sugary, juice abundant, slightly acidulated. ..."

3. Individual Training in Our Colleges by Clarence Frank Birdseye (1907)
"... which that it may not be burdensome, it shall be put proportionately upon every scholar who retaineth his seat in the buttery," that is, who was still ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1866)
"ALBERT buttery. GROVE FAMILY (:3rd S. ix. 871.) —Some of this family are resident at Zeals house, ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"tery, when he was я long distance up the river from the buttery, and then saw that tlie waters off the Battery were crowded with vessels. ..."

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