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sweet oil en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, dated, uncountable) An oil with a pleasant taste, especially olive oil or rape oil.
   • Mr. Nollekens shook him by the elbow, and applied to him for a little sweet-oil, a large basin, some water, and pen, ink, and paper. 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 293:
   • Equal parts of the juice of house-leek, brandy and sweet-oil in a phial, to be hung up and exposed to the sun for a month or more. 1847, editorial staff, “A Cure for Deafness”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 10, page 74:

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pl oliwa do sałatek (olive oil when used as a salad dressing) · it eleomele (olive oil when used as a salad dressing)