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buttery

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  1. 1. a. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. Source: opted
  5. 5. adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech Source: wordnet
  6. 6. adj. resembling or containing or spread with butter Source: wordnet
  7. 7. n. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines Source: wordnet
  8. 8. n. a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals Source: wordnet
  9. 9. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter. 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. Weale. Buttery hatch, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. Wright. Source: webster
  10. 10. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter. Source: adambom
  11. 11. j:83/n:17 n. a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals s. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech s. resembling or containing or spread with butter Source: ecdict

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