Crossword clues for oleomargarine
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.]
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A processed food product used as an inexpensive substitute for butter, made primarily from refined vegetable oils, sometimes including animal fats, and churned with skim milk to form a semisolid emulsion; also called oleomargarine; artificial butter.
The word margarine shall mean all substances, whether compounds or otherwise, prepared in imitation of butter, and whether mixed with butter or not.
--Margarine Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 29). Margarin.
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.
Wiktionary
n. (context dated English) margarine
WordNet
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.