snail butter

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   for preparing snails: butter seasoned with shallots and garlic and parsley

   Broadersauce

Questions about snail butter

What does snail butter mean?

snail butter means "for preparing snails: butter seasoned with shallots and garlic and parsley".

Is snail butter a common word?

snail butter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.