Buttery
Buttery ({not transcribed}) , adjective
Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
Buttery ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Old English botery, botry; compare Late Latin botaria wine vessel; also Old English botelerie, from French bouteillerie, from boutellie bottle. Not derived from butter. See Bottle a hollow vessel, Butt a cask.]
1.
An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.
All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north.
2.
A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.
And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar.
3.
A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. — Weale
Collocations (1)
Buttery hatch , a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. — Wright