
Buttery
Academic space
A 'buttery' is often an informal social space in academic settings, not a regular restaurant or bar.
After lectures, we'll head to the buttery to chat and snack.
Storage area
In history, 'butteries' were storage rooms for food, drink, and often eating utensils.
The castle's buttery held barrels of mead and loaves of bread. Compare with
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