fairy butter

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nounfairy butter (uncountable)

uncountableA food made from butter and egg yolks mixed with sugar and orange flower water.
UKdialectaluncountableCertain gelatinous fungi, the tremellas.
"A woman," he says, "who had been in their society challenged one of the guests whom she espied in the market selling fairy-butter."
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 309
Synonyms: fairies' butter

nounCertain gelatinous fungi, the tremellas.

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