Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A soap made with vegetable oil, especially olive oil, and sodium hydroxide.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
soap .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive oil and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, originally made with
olive oil .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a good hard soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Castile.]
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From Castile in Spain, from which it originally came.
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