vegetable tallow
Americannoun
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any of several tallowlike substances of vegetable origin, used in making candles, soap, etc., and as lubricants.
noun
Etymology
Origin of vegetable tallow
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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The principal exports are fish, coarse black tea, cotton, vegetable tallow, sweet potatoes, and some wheat.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
Cocoanut oil was once used extensively in the manufacture of fine candles, and is still occasionally in demand for this purpose in the Philippines, in combination with the vegetable tallow of a species of Stillingia.
From The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines by William S. (Scrugham) Lyon
They carried her off with other booty; but as she was so small, and did not look able to do much work, they sold her to her present master for three cakes of vegetable tallow.
From Mark Seaworth by William Henry Giles Kingston
Tall′ow-tree, the name given to trees of different kinds which produce a thick oil or vegetable tallow, or a somewhat resinous substance, capable of making candles.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The sebaceous matter, or vegetable tallow, is contained in the seed-vessels of the Stillingia.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 by Robert Chambers
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