oil of olives
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English oile of olyvys.
Noun
[edit]- (now rare) Olive oil. [from 14th c.]
- 1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician:
- Common Oil of Olives, is pressed out of ripe olives, not out of the stones.
- 1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, section VIII:
- Oil of olives.—The province of Suse produces great abundance of this oil.