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A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
Answer for the clue "A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter ", 13 letters:
oleomargarine
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Word definitions for oleomargarine in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1873, "butter substitute made from beef fat," from French oléomargarine (1854), from oléine (from Latin oleum "oil" + -ine, after glycerine ) + margarine . It was regarded as a chemical compound of olein and margarine.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter [syn: margarine , margarin , oleo , marge ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Margarine \Mar"ga*rine\ (m[aum]r"j[u^]*r[i^]n; m[aum]r`j[u^]*r[=e]n"), n. [F.; see margarin .] A processed food product used as an inexpensive substitute for butter, made primarily from refined vegetable oils, sometimes including animal fats, and churned ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context dated English) margarine
Usage examples of oleomargarine.
Court held that a statute of that State forbidding the sale of oleomargarine colored to look like butter could validly be applied to oleomargarine brought from another State and still in the original package.
New Hampshire statute which required that all oleomargarine marketed in the State be colored pink.
Similarly, the governor of a national home for disabled soldiers was released from Ohio custody for serving oleomargarine in the home in violation of an Ohio statute.
State regulation of cigarettes, convict-made goods, liquors, oleomargarine, etc.
We had Coca-Cola, chocolate-covered peanuts, jukeboxes, Oxydol, Ivory Snow, oleomargarine, and the atomic bomb!
The specific demands included state regulation of railroads, free coinage of silver, reduction of the tariff to a revenue basis, revision of the patent laws, high taxation of oleomargarine, and reduction of the legal rate of interest from 10 to 8 per cent.
There was a scupping sound as he attacked his oat porridge -- a heaping quart of which, lubricated with a lump of oleomargarine the size of a cricket ball, constituted his time-honored breakfast.
Under a statute authorizing the manufacture of oleomargarine, he had undertaken the business, to find himself ruined by a later legislature making its manufacture a misdemeanor.
Yet the State must not put unreasonable burdens upon interstate commerce even in oleomargarine.
The specific demands included state regulation of railroads, free coinage of silver, reduction of the tariff to a revenue basis, revision of the patent laws, high taxation of oleomargarine, and reduction of the legal rate of interest from 10 to 8 per cent.