| 单词 | buttery door |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbuttery door buttery door n. the door of a buttery. ΚΠ 1423 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 175 (MED) Paied for an newe keye to þe botrie dore, iij d. 1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxviii. sig. Cii Thy butterie doore I heare not creake. 1648 Case for City-spectacles 6 He speaks like the hinges of a starv'd buttery doore that whines for grease. 1785 R. Cumberland Nat. Son i. 18 We will have a batch at backgammon, to while away the time till David gives the signal on the buttery-door. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. vi. 143 Bill pounced on the big table, and began to rattle it away to its place outside the buttery-door. 1920 Our Dumb Animals Aug. 47/1 He would notify her that he was hungry by giving his queer little bark at the buttery door. 2002 E. Haydon Requiem for Sun (2003) 8 Who would expect the Lady Cymrian, dressed in peasant garb, unguarded, at the buttery door in the middle of the night? < as lemmas |
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