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English
Etymology
From Middle English oile of olyvys.
Noun
oil of olives (uncountable)
- (now rare) Olive oil.
1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician:Common Oil of Olives, is pressed out of ripe olives, not out of the stones.
1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, section VIII:Oil of olives.—The province of Suse produces great abundance of this oil.