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Candy oil

Candy oil noun: olive oil, especially oil imported from Crete.

Noun

Candy oil (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Olive oil, especially oil imported from Crete.
    • sallet Candy oil excellent good at 16d. the quart1593, Job Throckmorton (cousin of Walter Raleigh), business record cited in A. L. Rowse, Sir Walter Ralegh: His Family and Private Life, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962, Chapter 11, p. 192
    • Geven a warrant to Aldⁿ Bayninge: ffor paymᵗ of ł 80: to W ffisher ffor 24 barrells of candy oyle at 3ˡⁱ . 6ˢ . 8ᵈ p barrell1600, entry in the Court Records of the East India Company, 15 January, 1600, cited in Henry Stevens (editor), The Dawn of British Trade to the East Indies as Recorded in the Court Minutes of the...

Origin of Candy oil

From Candy (historical name for the island of Crete) + oil.

Questions about Candy oil

What does Candy oil mean?
Candy oil means olive oil, especially oil imported from Crete.
What part of speech is Candy oil?
Candy oil is a noun.

Words near Candy oil in the dictionary

  1. candy grams
  2. candy kid
  3. candy kids
  4. candy man
  5. candy men
  6. Candy oil
  7. candy pink
  8. candy pinks
  9. candy raver
  10. candy ravers
  11. candy roaster

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