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Oleomargarine

noun
(Written also oleomargarin)
1.
A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.  Synonyms: margarin, margarine, marge, oleo.






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... are valuable for an entirely different reason. Milk fat, either in the milk or as butter, beef fat which is a constituent of oleomargarine, the fat in the yolk of egg, all contain one of the vitamines needed by children in order to grow properly, and by grown people to keep in good health. Lard and the vegetable fats and oils, like nut or vegetable margarine and cottonseed-oil, do not ...
— Food Guide for War Service at Home • Katharine Blunt, Frances L. Swain, and Florence Powdermaker

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— Penelope's Postscripts • Kate Douglas Wiggin



Words linked to "Oleomargarine" :   marge, vegetable oil, oil, stick, paste, spread, trans fatty acid



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