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buttery

[buht-uh-ree] / ˈbʌt ə ri /
ADJECTIVE
containing butter
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The best brunches in L.A. involve buttery biscuits in Glassell Park, live jazz in View Park-Windsor Hills and Hong Kong French toast in Koreatown, plus much more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

I took a bite of the buttery Texas toast and the crinkle-cut fries, then dipped them into the creamy, peppery Cane’s Sauce, which tasted something like pickled ranch.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

His tenor saxophone’s tone grows more appealingly buttery with each passing year, yet his phrasing has lost none of its urgency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The lettuce is cooked with buttery garlicky scallions and, once wilted, frozen peas and hot chicken stock.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

The aroma of buttery biscuits and a heat wave hit me head-on.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

Raffan tucked into supermarket meal deals and butteries - a "really dense, stodgy" Scottish pastry - but describes cold custard as his "secret weapon".

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2023

Provender was in the butteries, coal within the bins.

From Time Magazine Archive

Between classes I drink cups of coffee with them and eat doughnuts, sitting in various common rooms and butteries and coffee shops.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

It contains sitting or resting-rooms, smoking-rooms, huge dormitories capable of accommodating about 600 sleepers; bathrooms, lavatories, extensive hot-water and warming apparatus, great kitchens, and butteries, and so forth.

From Regeneration by Henry Rider Haggard

There were butteries; one of these was reached by a ladder.

From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang




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