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buttermilk

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but·ter·milk  (btr-mlk)
n.
1. The sour liquid that remains after the butterfat has been removed from whole milk or cream by churning.
2. A cultured sour milk made by adding certain microorganisms to sweet milk.

buttermilk
Noun
the sourish liquid remaining after the butter has been separated from milk
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Noun1.buttermilkbuttermilk - residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture
milk - a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings


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Natasha ate of everything and thought she had never seen or eaten such buttermilk cakes, such aromatic jam, such honey-and-nut sweets, or such a chicken anywhere.
One afternoon Antonia and her father came over to our house to get buttermilk, and lingered, as they usually did, until the sun was low.
P'raps tha' art a young 'un, after all, an' p'raps tha's got child's blood in thy veins instead of sour buttermilk.
 
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