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tallow

[tal-oh] / ˈtæl oʊ /
NOUN
fat
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Dr. Heather Rogers, a dermatologist in Seattle and founder of the Doctor Rogers skincare line, told me that there are few modern scientific studies examining beef tallow as a skincare ingredient.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 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

The Make America Healthy Again movement, for which Kennedy is the de facto leader, promotes a diet heavy in meat and animal products, such as butter, beef tallow and raw milk.

From MarketWatch May 19, 2026

The merchant’s glittering black eyes did not waver, nor the tallow cheeks redden.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

I applied beef and bison tallows from three companies.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

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

The viscosity will vary from light spindle or dynamo oils, which have but little more body than kerosene, to the heaviest greases and tallows.

From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?

Although the warp yarn is made very soft and pliable by boiling and beetling, the weaver always tallows it in order to make it work more easily.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

Milling-base.—The materials generally used are tallows and cocoa-nut oils of the finest quality.

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

"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

He tallowed the lead and heaved it, and brought it down to Weeks.

From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Never did a Jersey "jay" in Sunday clothes and tallowed boots respond to a bunco steerer's greeting with a gladder smile than mine to that pious old past-master of craft.

From The Deluge by David Graham Phillips

In the Elizabethan ship they superintended the stowage of the ballast, and were in charge below, over the ballast shifters, when the ships were laid on their sides to be scraped and tallowed.

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield

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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