salad oil
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noun
an oil used in salad dressing, especially olive oil or a vegetable oil, as from sesame, corn, or safflower.
Origin of salad oil
First recorded in 1550–60
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Historical Examples of salad oil
Use no oil for them but salad-oil, there being water in all other.
Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the MillionSarah Josepha Hale
Put a little boiling water in a salad-oil flask; so that the flask may be a quarter full, say.
Bottles of salad-oil stood on the mantel-shelf, and a bunch of carrots might be lying on the table among bundles of newspapers.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years AgoAnne Douglas Sedgwick
It was doubtless by sheer accident that Smith, reaching at the moment for the salad-oil, overturned his water-glass.
The Real ManFrancis Lynde