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olio

[oh-lee-oh] / ˈoʊ liˌoʊ /


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My father would bathe in spaghetti aglio olio if it weren't frowned upon.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2021

Our preschooler was famished, so we headed to the property’s Italian restaurant, where the attentive wait staff helped us match Sula’s wines with minestrone soup, insalata mista, pizza and spaghetti aglio e olio.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2020

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2018

But I have such an olio of affairs, really I know not what to do.

From The Way of the World by William Congreve

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

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2022

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

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

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

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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