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butterines

butterines is the plural of butterine.

Meaning of butterine

Noun

butterine (countable and uncountable, plural butterines)

  1. An imitation butter prepared from animal fat with other ingredients.
    • If a man sells you anything as good as what you ask for, but yet entirely different, are you cheated? […] [A] man may say his butterine is as pure and wholesome as genuine butter, and therefore why not sell it as butter?1894, R. C. Kedzie, “Adulteration of Fruit Preserves and Other Foods”, in Twenty-fourth annual report of the secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan

Questions about butterines

What is butterines the plural of?
Butterines is the plural of butterine.

Words near butterines in the dictionary

  1. butterhorns
  2. butterier
  3. butteries
  4. butteriest
  5. butterine
  6. butterines
  7. butteriness
  8. buttering
  9. buttering down
  10. buttering one's bread on both sides
  11. buttering out

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