Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of olio.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See olio.

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  • noun Alternative form of olio.

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Examples

  • I learned, later, that cooking this soup in the pressure cooker helped it to maintain its high level of vitamins, minerals and those elusive ‘oglio-elements’.

    poireau - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • I learned, later, that cooking this soup in the pressure cooker helped it to maintain its high level of vitamins, minerals and those elusive ‘oglio-elements’.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • I learned, later, that cooking this soup in the pressure cooker helped it to maintain its high level of vitamins, minerals and those elusive ‘oglio-elements’.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • I learned, later, that cooking this soup in the pressure cooker helped it to maintain its high level of vitamins, minerals and those elusive ‘oglio-elements’.

    poireau - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • I learned, later, that cooking this soup in the pressure cooker helped it to maintain its high level of vitamins, minerals and those elusive ‘oglio-elements’.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • And first, if we consider his person; he was such a mass of filth and impiety, such an oglio of all ill qualities, that he stands the wonder and the disgrace of mankind.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

  • The wife of an Irish laborer who is desirous of giving her husband a delectable meal, and of various description, bodders not her brain with a diversity of utensils; but from the same pot or pan will produce, as if by enchantment, potatoes, (without which an Irishman cannot possibly make a dinner,) salt-herrings, and apple - dumplings; nor, does this extraordinary union of opposites affect the appetite of those partaking the oglio.

    Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

  • Water-colour: Trapani, S. Liberale and Lo S.oglio di Mal Consiglio.

    The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College Cambridge Henry Festing Jones 1889

  • "stinks of tobacco worse than hell of brimstone;" the coffee itself had the appearance of "Pluto's diet-drink, that witches tipple out of dead men's skulls;" and the company included "a silly fop and a worshipful justice, a griping rook and a grave citizen, a worthy lawyer and an errant pickpocket, a reverend non-conformist and a canting mountebank, all blended together to compose an oglio of impertinence."

    Inns and Taverns of Old London

  • One drop of the Florentine 'oglio di tobacco' being again given to a dog, it proved stupefying and vomitive, as before "(Birch's" History of the Royal Society, "vol, ii., pp. 42, 43).] drawn by one of the Society do the same effect, and is judged to be the same thing with the poyson both in colour and smell, and effect.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

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