ˈsalad-oil
Olive oil of superior quality, such as is used in dressing salads.
| 1558–9 Will of T. Hynde (Somerset Ho.), Layde out..for sallett oyle. 1582 J. Hester Secr. Phiorav. iii. xvii. 31 Take sweete Sallette Oile twentie pounde. 1620 Venner Via Recta vi. 99 Oyle Oliue, which we commonly call Sallet Oyle. 1683 Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing II. 74 Paste, Sallad-Oyl, and such accidental Requisites as the Press-man in his work may want. 1867 Bloxam Chem. 580 Salad oil, or sweet oil (olive oil), is obtained by crushing olives. 1874 Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. 302 The oil, Oleum Olivæ, called also Salad oil, is of a pale straw colour. |