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olive oil n
(Cookery) a pale yellow oil pressed from ripe olive fruits and used in cooking, medicines, soaps, etc. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| Here, too, there was a store of fragrant olive oil, while casks of old, well-ripened wine, unblended and fit for a god to drink, were ranged against the wall in case Ulysses should come home again after all. She cleansed all the dirt from her fair body with ambrosia, then she anointed herself with olive oil, ambrosial, very soft, and scented specially for herself--if it were so much as shaken in the bronze-floored house of Jove, the scent pervaded the universe of heaven and earth. |
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