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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 890 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUTTERY (from O. Fr. boterie,
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Lat. botaria, a place where liquor is stored, from butta, a cask)
, a place for storing wine; later, with a confusion with " butter," a pantry or store-
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room for food; especially, at colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, the place where food other than
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meat, especially
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bread and butter,
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ale and wipes, &c., are kept .

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