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olio

[oh-lee-oh] / ˈoʊ liˌoʊ /


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Toss garlic-infused olive oil with spaghetti, red pepper flakes and some parmesan cheese for a quick play on spaghetti aglio e olio.

From Salon Apr. 18, 2021

While my parents made sure that I hadn’t poisoned my grandmother, I went back to the kitchen and whipped up a simple spaghetti aglio e olio, which I secretly preferred to chanterelles.

From The New Yorker Nov. 18, 2019

Ms. Ardu is adding swordfish carpaccio and spaghetti aglio olio to the restaurant’s red-sauce menu.

From New York Times Sep. 10, 2019

But I believe I had Peruvian chef Virgilio Martinez’s blessing for my Cal-Peru-Ecuador olio.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2018

Freemasonry, Henry VI., and Locke, make a strange heterogeneous olio; but that is not all.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

One of my favorite aglio e olios had more coarsely ground, but just as crisp, breadcrumbs.

From Salon Jan. 1, 2022

The festivities were duly preceded with the religious ceremonies of the great holyday of St. Patrick's feast, and closed by a grand entertainment at night, which included theatricals, recitations and olios of song and sentiment.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) by Various

Words ending in io or yo add s; as, folios, nuncios, olios, ratios, embryos.

From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel

Gargilius, sleek, voluptuous lord, A hundred dainties smoke upon his board; Earth, air, and ocean ransack’d for the feast, In masquerade of foreign olios dress’d.

From A Poetical Cook-Book by Maria J. Moss

Not dainty now, the squire in haste Fell to, and praised their savory taste; Nay, said his meal had such a gout He ne'er in tarts and olios knew.

From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Marmaduke Park




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