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sweet oil

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sweet oil
n
(Cookery) another name for olive oil
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Noun1.sweet oilsweet oil - mild vegetable oil when used as food; especially olive or edible rape oil
vegetable oil, oil - any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants


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Bishop, who had just now made a third with Bar and Ferdinand, but whose innocence had again cut him out of the subject and washed him in sweet oil, was seen to approach Lord Decimus and glide into conversation.
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