soapolallie N. Amer.
(ˈsəʊpəʊlælɪ)
Also soapol(l)ali(e), soopolallie, sopelalee, etc.
[f. soap n. + Chinook Jargon olallie berry.]
1. A thick drink made from crushed soapberries. Cf. soapberry 2 c.
| 1895 Canad. Mag. Aug. 344/1 We were fortunate enough to see some Indians eating ‘soapolali’. 1944 C. Barbeau Mountain Cloud 199 Here are the stems of blackberries and the wild fruit of the hills that gives sopelalee. 1966 Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 27 Feb. 6/2 There was [at the potlatch] also a great deal of oolachan-grease and soapollalie. |
2. = soapberry 2 c. Also attrib.
| 1937 T. M. Stanwell-Fletcher Jrnl. 23 Sept. in Driftwood Valley (1946) 33 On drier, more open ridges..are..dense thickets of small Shepherdia, or soopolallie, bushes. 1953 A. F. Fluke Kwakiutl 21 The berries of the ‘soopolally’ bush..were dried and stored whole. 1957 J. R. & I. M. Christie Story of Okanagan Falls 42 One little shrub, the Indians' ‘soopolallie’..bears its gay red currant-like berries now only for the birds to enjoy. 1976 T. Walker Spatsizi xii. 139 The soap olallie leaves were a darker green, and the fruit larger. |