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tallow

[tal-oh] / ˈtæl oʊ /
NOUN
fat
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Cooking with beef tallow versus soybean oil is one example, said Alison Steiber, chief impact officer for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Each blended its tallow with additional ingredients — jojoba oil being the most significant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

The enriched flour, high-fructose corn syrup, and tallow that help make up the American classic give each small sponge cake about 65 days to be consumed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

As I ended my visit, the strong smell of tallow drifted from massive smokers across the street at Heritage Barbecue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

Soon he emerged, holding a flickering tallow candle in one hand, and a worn-out Stetson hat in the other.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

I applied beef and bison tallows from three companies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

There’s floors upon floors beneath, stored with jute and dye-woods, teas, coffees, spices, tobaccos, and lowest of all on the ground floor and in the cellarage, tallows in great hogsheads.

From Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon by George Manville Fenn

North American tallows are, as a general rule, much paler in colour than those of South America, but do not compare with them in consistence.

From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. Simmons

Most of the Australasian tallows are of very uniform quality and much in demand.

From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. Simmons

Their only question will be that of their Legendre, or some oilier of their legislative butchers: How he cuts up; how he tallows in the caul or on the kidneys.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

"I've never tried to make my figures come out this way," he explained last week, pointing to a tall figure reminiscent of a grotesquely tallowed candle.

From Time Magazine Archive

The quarter-deck was here cut down, to make the ship the better for sailing, and her bottom was scrubbed and tallowed.

From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by William Henry Giles Kingston

The ways have been tallowed for us, thus far, and I don't fully understand it.

From The Grafters by Francis Lynde

Besides, he had on his new Prince Albert, and there was a suspicion of a formal call in the smoothly oiled hair and tallowed boots.

From The Soldier of the Valley by Nelson Lloyd

Slowly they collected at the edge of the tallowed collar, trembled in their fullness for an instant, and fell, another beginning the process instantly.

From Widdershins by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

While the ships, however, were on the keel, and the men busy heaving, scrubbing, and tallowing, they were attacked by a large body of the natives.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury




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