The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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. -
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.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of buttery English)
Usage examples of "butteries".
There are no gates, no porter's lodges, no butteries, no halls, no battels, and no common rooms.
The cupboards and the butteries are filled with flour, dried flesh, wine, olives and oil for burning.