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tallow

[tal-oh] / ˈtæl oʊ /
NOUN
fat
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Steak ’n Shake doesn’t make health claims about grass-fed beef or tallow, but the company believes its customers feel better about the chain’s food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

As for smell, a common concern among skeptics, I only found the bison tallow scent noticeably strong.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

Dr. Heather Rogers, a dermatologist in Seattle and founder of the Doctor Rogers skincare line, told me that there are few modern scientific studies examining beef tallow as a skincare ingredient.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

The enriched flour, high-fructose corn syrup, and tallow that help make up the American classic give each small sponge cake about 65 days to be consumed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

That evening I ask the cook for some tallow and bring it to him.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

I applied beef and bison tallows from three companies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

Their only question will be that of their Legendre, or some oilier of their legislative butchers: How he cuts up; how he tallows in the caul or on the kidneys.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Milling-base.—The materials generally used are tallows and cocoa-nut oils of the finest quality.

From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. Simmons

The viscosity will vary from light spindle or dynamo oils, which have but little more body than kerosene, to the heaviest greases and tallows.

From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?

The oil and tallows which are chiefly carbon and hydrogen, unite with the oxygen of the air and form carbonic acid and watery vapor, producing heat during the process.

From American Woman's Home by Catharine Esther Beecher

"I've never tried to make my figures come out this way," he explained last week, pointing to a tall figure reminiscent of a grotesquely tallowed candle.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were prolific, excellent nurses, tallowed well, and yielded good mutton.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Richard L. Allen

When a whaling ship is beset in the ice of Davis Straits, there is little work for her second engineer, once the engines have been nicely tallowed down.

From The Literary World Seventh Reader by John Calvin Metcalf

Never did a Jersey "jay" in Sunday clothes and tallowed boots respond to a bunco steerer's greeting with a gladder smile than mine to that pious old past-master of craft.

From The Deluge by David Graham Phillips

The hunters had killed and salted an incredible quantity of beef and pork, the ships were scraped and tallowed, and nothing more was to be done save to divide the victuals among all the buccaneers.

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield

While the ships, however, were on the keel, and the men busy heaving, scrubbing, and tallowing, they were attacked by a large body of the natives.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury


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