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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the seventeenth century, a cylindrical vessel of coarse pottery glazed with pulverized lead ore dusted upon the ware before it was fired.
Examples
“Greedily eyeing the butter-pot hanging from a beam”
“A packing-case — a coffin, perhaps — took the place of a commode, a butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs.”
“I've just put it all down in the butter-pot, so I'm afraid I can't oblige you.”
“Mansing had been found sound asleep, several miles back, lying by the side of the empty butter-pot, the contents of which he had devoured.”
“Mansing had been found sound asleep, several miles back, lying flat by the side of the empty butter-pot.”
“A packing-case -- a coffin, perhaps -- took the place of a commode, a butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs.”
“In the other corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these circles of ice.”
“Above him hung a canopy made of an old carpet in which you could distinguish two Cupids in a circle of roses, and at his feet, like a pillar, rose a butter-pot bearing these words in white letters on a chocolate ground: "Executed in the presence of H.R.H. the Duke of Angoulême at Noron, 3rd of October, 1847.”
“He even went near smashing several tiles, moved an armchair about, descended two steps; and, when they reached the second chamber, they showed him under the canopy, in front of the St. Peter, the butter-pot made at Noron.”
“A packing-case -- a coffin, perhaps -- took the place of a commode, a butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for”
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