Meaning of olive oiliness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being olive-oily.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“But at what price? What did “the melting pot” actually do for Spiro Anagnostopoulos? Jokes about being Greek, consciousness of the slickness of his hair and the olive oiliness of his skin, shame at his family name (how many hundred years had it endured without truncation?).”

“Although cyclosporine does have a distinctive smell, it doesn't really bother me too much. However, when I had to take it in its liquid form (from my heart transplant in 12/91 until about 6/93,) I disliked the olive-oiliness of it.”

“You want to give this a larger dose of salt than normal: It will bring out the olive oiliness of the olive oil.”

“A recent standout, which I tasted blind alongside a range of equally excellent Greek dry whites, Veralda’s example has a mouthwatering tension between mouthfilling tropical fruitiness, olive oiliness, tingling lemon and minerals that would be superb with meaty white fish with herby accompaniments.”

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