Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
buttered ale (which see, underbutter , transitive verb).
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Examples
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Thence home and to the office, and so home having a great cold, and so my wife and Mrs. Barbary have very great ones, we are at a loss how we all come by it together, so to bed, drinking butter-ale.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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Thence home and to the office, and so home having a great cold, and so my wife and Mrs. Barbary have very great ones, we are at a loss how we all come by it together, so to bed, drinking butter-ale.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 42: March/April 1665-66 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Thence home and to the office, and so home having a great cold, and so my wife and Mrs. Barbary have very great ones, we are at a loss how we all come by it together, so to bed, drinking butter-ale.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Thence home and to the office, and so home having a great cold, and so my wife and Mrs. Barbary have very great ones, we are at a loss how we all come by it together, so to bed, drinking butter-ale.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1665/66 Pepys, Samuel 1666
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