Found 2 items, similar to buttery.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: buttery
buttery
adj 1: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner
or speech;
“buttery praise”;
“gave him a fulsome
introduction”;
“an oily sycophantic press agent”;
“oleaginous hypocrisy”;
“smarmy self-importance”;
“the
unctuous Uriah Heep” [syn:
fulsome,
oily,
oleaginous,
smarmy,
unctuous]
2: resembling or containing or spread with butter;
“a rich
buttery cake”
n 1: a small storeroom for storing foods or wines [syn:
pantry,
larder]
2: a teashop where students in British universities can
purchase light meals
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Buttery
Buttery
\But"ter*y\, a.
Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
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Buttery
\But"ter*y\, n.; pl.
Butteries. [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.
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All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars,
pantries, and butteries, to the north. --Sir H.
Wotton.
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2. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and
refreshments are kept for sale to the students.
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And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar. --E.
Hall.
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3. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. --Weale.
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Buttery hatch, a half door between the buttery or kitchen
and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were
passed. --Wright.
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