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margarine

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Margarine ( or ) is an imitation butter spread used for spreading, baking, and cooking. Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès created it in France , in 1869. He was responding to a challenge by Emperor Napoleon III to create a butter substitute for the armed forces and ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A spread, manufactured from a blend of vegetable oils (some of which are hydrogenated), emulsifiers etc, mostly used as a substitute for butter.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter [syn: margarin , oleo , oleomargarine , marge ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
butter substitute, 1873, from French margarine (see margarin ). Invented 1869 by French scientist Hippolyte Mège-Mouries and made in part from edible fats and oils.\n\nThe "enterprising merchant" of Paris, who sells Margarine as a substitute for Butter, ...

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 ...

Usage examples of margarine.

That was how our neighbors talked, and the beer truck drivers, shipyard workers, Brosen fishermen, the women who worked in the Amada margarine factory, housemaids, marketwomen on Saturday, garbage collectors on Tuesday, they all yapped their words querulously, and even the schoolteachers yapped, though in a more refined way, and the postal and police officials, and on Sunday the pastor in the pulpit.

Otto Prill, a foreman at the Amada margarine factory, celebrated their wedding in the autumn of 1932.

You could get two and a half dozen of them for one gulden, and Kashubian butter cost less than margarine.

And yet I have managed by drumming to search the timber port, with all its driftwood lurching in the bights or caught in the rushes, and, with less difficulty, the launching ways of the Schichau shipyard and the Klawitter shipyard, and the drydocks, the scrap-metal dump, the rancid coconut stores of the margarine factory, and all the hiding places that were ever known to me in those parts.

My father paused with the tub of margarine in one hand and the butter knife in the other, and for an irrational moment I thought he might stab Grandma Mazur.

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She would have one quick cup with Hoke before returning to the kitchen to fry two eggs, sunny side up, and to toast four slices of Cuban bread that she would slather with margarine.

We did get flour, margarine, lard, dried milk, dried peas and beans, white and brown sugar, pasta, oatmeal, dried fruits and mushrooms, instant potatoes, coffee, tea, instant orange juice, and soup mix.

Moving upwards, he views the shelf of lubricants and creams and lotions: the butter and the margarine, the tub of lard, the mayonnaise, the extra virgin olive oil, the salad dressings and the HP Sauce.

For the main course, instant mashed potatoes with margarine and a stout slice of meatloaf, swimming in diluted cream of mushroom soup.

The pasty margarine tasted as usual like axle grease, but they ate excellent turbot and good leg of lamb.

Carton of low-fat milk, slab of margarine or butter, several containers of yogurt.

They have toast thickly spread with margarine, together with malted milk biscuits and two cups of tea each.

There wasn't much there -- some milk, part of a ham, orange juice, diet soda, apples, oranges, and bananas, six different kinds of margarine from a time some weeks before when he decided to test all the different margarines that were available, some rolls that had been in there several months, and a couple of open cans of pineapple.