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tallow

[tal-oh] / ˈtæl oʊ /
NOUN
fat
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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

All the same, the fatty acid profile of tallow does overlap with some lipids found in human skin and sebum, including palmitic, stearic and oleic acids.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

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

New nutrition guidance from the American Heart Association advises getting protein from plants rather than meat, choosing low-fat or fat-free dairy and using olive, soybean and canola oils instead of beef tallow and butter.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

There was a time when we ate tallow candles with a stomach and thought slush and horse-junk well-tasting.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

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

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

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?

"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

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

Nothing now held the ship but a single iron dog which bound the two tallowed surfaces together.

From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien

"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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