buttery
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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 buttery, milder fish compliments the tang of the tomatoes and the bright balsamic dressing that finishes the salad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Soft pieces of bread are drenched in a buttery mixture of Dijon mustard, brown sugar and Worcestershire before being baked into a golden, shareable centerpiece.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Keyla Marquez, our fashion director at large, asked, turning to me from inside the buttery dome, glass of Champagne in hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
The innkeeper has gone to the door and opened it, spilling the buttery light of the inn out onto the ground.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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
The hall is connected with an ample kitchen, and a series of butteries, pantries, and sculleries of suitable size.
From Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant
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
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