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butter dish

butter dish noun: a specialized dish for serving butter, typically consisting of a base with a separate fitting lid with its own handle.

butter dish: a specialized dish for serving butter, typically consisting of a base with a separate fitting lid...
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Noun

butter dish (plural butter dishes)

  1. A specialized dish for serving butter, typically consisting of a base with a separate fitting lid with its own handle.
    • ARROW-ROOT PUDDING.
      From a quart of new milk take a small tea-cupful, and mix it with two large spoonfuls of arrow-root. Boil the remainder of the milk, and stir it amongst the arrow-root; add, when nearly cold, the well-beaten yolks of four eggs, with two ounces of pounded loaf sugar, and the same...1850, Mrs. Dalgairns, “Puddings, Pies, and Tarts”, in The Practice of Cookery, Adapted to the Business of Every-day Life, 12th edition, with additions, Robert Cadell, page 240

Forms of butter dish

pluralbutter dishes

Questions about butter dish

What does butter dish mean?
Butter dish means a specialized dish for serving butter, typically consisting of a base with a separate fitting lid with its own handle.
What part of speech is butter dish?
Butter dish is a noun.
What is the plural of butter dish?
The plural of butter dish is butter dishes.

Words near butter dish in the dictionary

  1. butter clams
  2. butter cream
  3. butter creams
  4. butter curler
  5. butter curlers
  6. butter dish
  7. butter dishes
  8. butter down
  9. butter face
  10. butter faces
  11. butter fat

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