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tallow

[tal-oh] / ˈtæl oʊ /
NOUN
fat
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Steak ’n Shake is betting that beef tallow and grass-fed beef will draw diners and lift sales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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

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

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

They almost resembled the rendering vats that knackers use for tallow.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

I applied beef and bison tallows from three companies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

There’s floors upon floors beneath, stored with jute and dye-woods, teas, coffees, spices, tobaccos, and lowest of all on the ground floor and in the cellarage, tallows in great hogsheads.

From Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon by George Manville Fenn

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?

Although the warp yarn is made very soft and pliable by boiling and beetling, the weaver always tallows it in order to make it work more easily.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

Most of the Australasian tallows are of very uniform quality and much in demand.

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

"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

In this blessed state they washed their clothes in the brooks, hunted goats across the island, and burnt and tallowed their ship the Trinity.

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

"But in running in for the town, you kept the lead going, out of question, and must have tallowed as usual."

From Pathfinder; or, the inland sea by James Fenimore Cooper

"It is a plant," says the Grete Herball, "whereof is made a manner of lynke if it be tallowed."

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

He tallowed the lead and heaved it, and brought it down to Weeks.

From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

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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