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Definition of Buttery

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

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

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

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

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. 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)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Buttery

butternut butternut butternuts butternut squash butternut tree butters butterscotch butterscotches butterweed butterweed

butterweeds butterwort butterwort butterworts buttery (current term) buttery (current term) butter bean butter churn butter cookie butter daisy

butter dish butter knife butter of bismuth butter of zinc butter stools butter up butter yellow buttes butthead buttheads

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