salad oil
noun
an oil used in salad dressing, especially olive oil or a vegetable oil, as from sesame, corn, or safflower.
Origin of salad oil
First recorded in 1550–60
Words nearby salad oil
salad burnet,
salad days,
salad dressing,
salad fork,
salad green,
salad oil,
salad plate,
salade,
salade niçoise,
saladin,
salado
Example sentences from the Web for salad oil
It was doubtless by sheer accident that Smith, reaching at the moment for the salad-oil, overturned his water-glass.
The Real Man |Francis LyndeBottles of salad-oil stood on the mantel-shelf, and a bunch of carrots might be lying on the table among bundles of newspapers.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago |Anne Douglas SedgwickPut a little boiling water in a salad-oil flask; so that the flask may be a quarter full, say.
Use no oil for them but salad-oil, there being water in all other.
Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million |Sarah Josepha Hale