Crossword clues for buttery
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buttery \But"ter*y\, a. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"resembling butter," late 14c., from butter (n.) + -y (2). Related: Butteriness.
"place for storing liquor," originally "room where provisions are laid up" (late 14c.), from Old French boterie, from Late Latin botaria, from bota, variant of butta "cask, bottle;" see butt (n.2) + -ery.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom. 2 (context UK English) A room in a university where snacks are sold. Etymology 2
a. 1 Made with or tasting of butter. 2 Resembling butter in some way.
WordNet
adj. 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]
resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake"
n. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines [syn: pantry, larder]
a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
Wikipedia
A buttery, also known as a roll, rowie, rollie, or Aberdeen roll is a savoury Scottish bread roll.
In the Middle Ages, a buttery was a storeroom for liquor, the name being derived from the Latin and French words for bottle or, to put the word into its simpler form, a butt, that is, a cask. A butler, before he became able to take charge of the ewery, pantry, cellar, and the staff, would be in charge of the buttery. Over time, the buttery became a general food storeroom; the larders of Oxbridge colleges in particular became places where students purchased food and drink.
Most Oxford and Cambridge colleges, University College and Trevelyan College, Durham, King's College London, the University of Bristol and Trinity College, Dublin call their eating places butteries to this day, as do a few schools in the United Kingdom.
The residential colleges of Yale also refer to their snack bars by this name. Trinity College at the University of Toronto also uses the name to refer to its cafeteria located in the Larkin building. Bruce Hall at the Australian National University also maintains a buttery, which is an informal canteen and bar. The Bar of the Junior Common Room at Trinity College, The University of Melbourne, is known as The Buttery.
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Buttery may refer to:
- Buttery (bread), a savoury Scottish bread roll
- Buttery (shop), a storeroom for liquor
- Buttery (room) A service room in a large medieval household.
People named Buttery:
- Chris Buttery (21st century), English rugby league player
- John Ernest Buttery Hotson (1877-1944), administrator in British India
A buttery was a service room in a large medieval house in which barrels, bottles, or butts of alcoholic drink were stored, and from which they were served into the Great Hall. The "butler" was anciently the household officer in charge of the buttery, and possibly for its provisionment (i.e., the sourcing and purchasing of wine), and was required to serve wine to his lord and guests at banquets. In the royal household such officer was termed the "Marshal of the Buttery" and was often a post discharged under the feudal land tenure of grand serjeanty. In less important households such an officer was termed the yeoman of the buttery.
Usage examples of "buttery".
Chemically the flowers contain a yellow, odorous, buttery oil, with tannin, and malates of potash and lime, whilst the berries furnish viburnic acid.
The afternoon waned as she inspected the work going on in the buttery, the servery, and the hall.
The lady had retired to her chamber, and the baron had passed a supperless and sleepless night, stalking about his apartments till an advanced hour of the morning, when hunger compelled him to summon into his presence the spoils of the buttery, which, being the intended array of an uneaten wedding feast, were more than usually abundant, and on which, when the knight and the friar entered, he was falling with desperate valour.
The result of this was that when Bella pulled the pair of buttery soft leather trews up her legs, she immediately felt sinfully daring and sexy.
Latten is an alloy of copper with zinc, lead, and tin mixed in so that when it is finished it takes on a beautiful colour which is like the softest and butteriest brass.
Bulletins from Party Headquarters are spelled out in obscene charades by hebephrenics and Latahs and apes, Sollubis fart code, Negroes open and shut mouth to Hash messages on gold teeth, Arab rioters send smoke signals by throwing great buttery eunuchs -- they make the best smoke, hangs black and shit-solid in the air -- onto gasoline fires in a rubbish heap, mosaic of melodies, sad Panpipes of humpbacked beggar, cold wind sweeps down from post card of Chimborazzi, flutes of Ramadan, piano music down a windy street, mutilated police calls, advertising leaflet synchronize with street fight spell SOS.
He seemed especially proud of his cooking, and both his rich coffee and his marvelous cake-crisp plump halves of black walnuts thickly distributed through buttery batter and a semisweet chocolate frosting-indicated a mastery of solid, downhome, country-style cuisine.
She woke to the bitter tang of black Colombian perking in the pot, the scent mingling with a buttery aroma of pancakes, the sizzle of bacon in its lake of fat, all lacing in their steamy collaboration to make a perfect moist morning And then she snapped awake, really awake-on the hard rover bunk, hugging herself in her thermoelectric blanket.
A grand tiltyard and practice field stood at the far end of the property, and the imposing square keep at the heart of the holding was comprised of the great hall, numerous bedchambers, garderobes, a buttery, a pantry, and several cellars.
He was sitting on a nest of palm fronds, drenched in a spill of buttery lightwe had partially unzipped the roof of the tent in order to increase ventilationand it looked as if the fronds were an island adrift in a dark void and he a spiritual being who had been scorched and twisted by some cosmic fire, marooned in eternal emptiness.
The man had a silken, almost buttery voice that, Ludwig noticed, had at least half the diner listening raptly.
A dozen undergraduates had spilled out of the buttery, beers in hand, tanking up before second hall.
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.
I munched thoughtfully on a buttery, crunchy cookie, whose texture was perfectly balanced with the sweet chewiness of the currants.