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butlery

butlery noun: a butler's pantry; a serving pantry.

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

butlery meaning in Tamil

butlery in Tamil

சமையல் தடடு முட்டகம்

Forms of butlery

pluralbutleries
alternative form (archaic)butlerie

Origin of butlery

From Middle English buttillary, buttlarye, botelerye, botelerie, from Old French boteillerie, butelerie and Medieval Latin butellaria.

Questions about butlery

What does butlery mean?
Butlery means a butler's pantry; a serving pantry.
What is butlery in Tamil?
Butlery in Tamil is சமையல் தடடு முட்டகம். See Butlery meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is butlery?
Butlery is a noun.
What is the plural of butlery?
The plural of butlery is butleries.

Words near butlery in the dictionary

  1. butlers steak
  2. butlers' steak
  3. butlers' steaks
  4. butlership
  5. butlerships
  6. butlery
  7. butles
  8. Butlin
  9. Butlinesque
  10. butling
  11. butment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butlery (page history and authors); butlery (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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