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butlerie

butlerie is the archaic form of butlery.

Meaning of butlery

Noun

butlery (countable and uncountable, plural butleries)

  1. (countable) A butler's pantry; a serving pantry.
  2. (uncountable) The work or role of a butler.
    • The dark side of butlery was even more evident during the height of the Evil Empire, when the strongest and most enterprising local men were made into footmen and majordomos, completely robbed of their dignity but paid for a month's work what they might otherwise make in a year.2007, Steven A. Grasse, The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined the World, page 53

Forms of butlerie

pluralbutleries

Questions about butlerie

What is butlerie the archaic form of?
Butlerie is the archaic form of butlery.

Words near butlerie in the dictionary

  1. butleresses
  2. Butlerian
  3. Butlerian jihad
  4. Butlerian Jihads
  5. Butlerians
  6. butlerie
  7. butleries
  8. butlerin
  9. butlering
  10. butlerite
  11. Butlerites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butlerie (page history and authors); butlery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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