Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
vegetable butters (under butter), gutta-shea, and karite.
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Examples
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“She decided to take over a very small shea-butter business, and she did very well,” Menanteau says.
L’Occitane Gives Back: John Ortved Ortved, John 2008
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Moorish countries, bartering corn and blue cotton cloths for salt, which they again barter in Dentila and other districts for iron, shea-butter, and small quantities of gold-dust.
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These beans are sometimes fraudulently soaked in shea-butter to make them heavy, and I once saw a pebble ground exactly into the form of one of them; but such practices are not very common.
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Rice and cereals, indigo and cotton, coffee and arrowroot, tallow-nuts and shea-butter, squills and jalap, oil-palms and cocoas, ginger, cayenne, and ground-nuts are to be grown.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Look out for oils that contain rose, neroli and evening primrose and moisturisers with shea-butter - they will make your legs look instantly better.'
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Look out for oils that contain rose, neroli and evening primrose and moisturisers with shea-butter - they will make your legs look instantly better.'
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The men Ms. Teer later picked to be her lead partners in that effort, Richelieu Dennis and Nyema Tubman, began their careers on 125th Street, peddling organic shea-butter soaps, much like the ones Mr. Dennis's grandmother once sold at village markets in Africa.
NYT > Home Page By KEVIN FLYNN 2011
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The men Ms. Teer later picked to be her lead partners in that effort, Richelieu Dennis and Nyema Tubman, began their careers on 125th Street, peddling organic shea-butter soaps, much like the ones Mr. Dennis's grandmother once sold at village markets in Africa.
NYT > Home Page By KEVIN FLYNN 2011
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Look out for oils that contain rose, neroli and evening primrose and moisturisers with shea-butter - they will make your legs look instantly better.'
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The slatee was therefore desirous of exchanging this slave for one of Karfa's, and offered some cloth and shea-butter to induce Karfa to comply with the proposal, which was accepted.
Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 02 Mungo Park 1788
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