• Almond-butter

    Full definition of almond-butter

    Noun

    almond-butter

    (uncountable)
      • 1886 , , Notes and Queries , Most of the good things which Miss Eugenia and Miss Clara were taught to make in the country sound very appetizing, the "almond-butter" especially, à mon goût.
      • 1930 , Harold Reinoehl Walley, ‎John Harold Wilson , Early Seventeenth-century Plays, 1600-1642 , He was eating of almond-butter, and I long'd for't.
      • 2011 , , Fodor's New Mexico, 8th Edition , Top off your meal with an almond-butter cake served with warm spiced apples and a mascarpone-caramel sauce.

    Usage notes

    Modern use of this hyphenated form is usually reserved for attributive use of the noun.

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