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tallow

[tal-oh] / ˈtæl oʊ /
NOUN
fat
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The Make America Healthy Again movement, for which Kennedy is the de facto leader, promotes a diet heavy in meat and animal products, such as butter, beef tallow and raw milk.

From MarketWatch May 19, 2026

“Give me beef tallow and six raw eggs, too.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 2026

Full-fat dairy is encouraged, while butter and beef tallow are viewed as acceptable.

From Barron's Jan. 7, 2026

He has lauded food companies for using beef tallow.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 18, 2025

She’d skin a louse for its hide and tallow.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

North American tallows are, as a general rule, much paler in colour than those of South America, but do not compare with them in consistence.

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

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 Thomssen, E. G.

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

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

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 Beecher, Catharine Esther

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 Masefield, John

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 Phillips, David Graham

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 Metcalf, John Calvin

The quarter-deck was here cut down, to make the ship the better for sailing, and her bottom was scrubbed and tallowed.

From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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 Thornbury, Walter




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