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tallow

[tal-oh] / ˈtæl oʊ /
NOUN
fat
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He now has to change the beef tallow in his fryer each week instead of every 10 to 14 days with vegetable oil.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

Each blended its tallow with additional ingredients — jojoba oil being the most significant.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

In many corners of the internet, tallow isn’t marketed simply as a moisturizer but as a return to something more primal and distinctly masculine.

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

He smelled like mutton tallow and mountain sagebrush.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

I applied beef and bison tallows from three companies.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

It often happens, especially with the tallows, that a dark colored sample produces a light colored soap, whereas a bleached light colored tallow produces a soap off shade.

From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by E. G. Thomssen

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

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?

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

"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

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

"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

Besides, he had on his new Prince Albert, and there was a suspicion of a formal call in the smoothly oiled hair and tallowed boots.

From The Soldier of the Valley by Nelson Lloyd

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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