oleo
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The key is oleo saccharum, which sounds like an ingredient from a laboratory, but is really just a process that pulls essential oils from citrus using sugar.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2020
But that hope might be oleo, a poor substitute.
From Time • May 13, 2013
With alarming candor, the book advocates oleo for almost everything, flour in chicken soup, cornstarch and mayonnaise in quiche, and the kind of gravy that gives gravy a bad name.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1906, vegetable oils were first substituted for the oleo oils, to lower the price and improve the product.
From Time Magazine Archive
Too tired to mix the saffron-colored powder into the hard cake of oleo, she simply smeared the white stuff on the bread and sprinkled the sugar over it.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing oleo
Scrabble: Four-Letter Words with 3 Vowels
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