单词 | butter dish |
释义 | butter dishn. A shallow container, typically with a lid, in which butter is stored. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > butter dish butter plate1490 buttercup1497 butter dish1559 butter boat1747 1559 in E. Roberts & K. Parker Southampton Probate Inventories, 1447–1575 (1992) I. 146 iij butter disshes, iij s. 1572 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 349 xxxix butter Dishes. 1669 H. Brayne Inventorie Shipp Carolina 17 Aug. in L. Cheves Shaftesbury Papers (2000) 139 Cooks Store... Two duz. & halfe of butter dishes. 1780 Catal. of Side-board of Plate G. B. Tyndale (John Plura) 8 Two blue and white butter dishes. 1845 Satirist 22 June 194/2 Anson bought..a lid for a butter-dish. 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxxiii. 814 An ornamental butter-dish. 1915 A. Blackwood Extra Day xvii. 224 [He] asked his Uncle to pass the pot of honey and the butter-dish. 1970 Times 7 Nov. (International Hotels section) p. iii/2 Five waiters hovered around our table, filling water jugs,..replenishing the butter dishes and smiling encouragement. 2006 Prevention Aug. 143/1 Keep your stick in a covered butter dish on a top or middle shelf. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1559 |
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