butterine

/ ˈbʌtəˌriːn; -rɪn /

noun

1. an artificial butter made partly from milk

Example Sentences

The item includes two long slices of French bread seasoned with Merichka’s garlic butterine, along with sandwich steak or chicken.

From Washington Times

The Chronicle vowed "to tell the truth about breakfasts of stale bread and rancid butterine, the watery tea, the pallid chicory decoction which serves for coffee, the crowded, dingy, and ill-ventilated dormitories".

From BBC

The people of the United States also consume millions of pounds every year of butter substitutes and imitations, such as oleomargarine and butterine.

From Project Gutenberg

It consisted of a beef-steak that was raw, except in those parts which had been burnt to a cinder; some potatoes which were very black under the eyes, and extremely hard, were also served; and some of last week's bread, together with some pale butterine, completed the repast.

From Project Gutenberg

A table, decidedly unsteady on its pins and bedight in a chequered breakfast cloth, whereon is a war-worn tea-pot—which article, by the way, knives and forks, dish-covers and spoons seem to have been made specially to match—cloudy delf, cruets not guiltless of defunct flies, an uninviting loaf and a pat of butterine or oleo-margarine, or whatever is the London lodging-house equivalent for butter, and, perchance, when that cover is lifted, a brace of leathery fried eggs, undoubtedly not of to-day’s or yesterday’s origin, will be disclosed to view.

From Project Gutenberg