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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as buttered ale (which see, under butter, transitive verb).

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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

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