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butter dishes

butter dishes is the plural of butter dish.

Meaning of butter dish

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

Questions about butter dishes

What is butter dishes the plural of?
Butter dishes is the plural of butter dish.

Words near butter dishes in the dictionary

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

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