1904 W. M. Dunne tr. G. Flaubert V. i. 440 They had not forgotten a few of those plump little dogs with pink silky hair and fattened on olive lees,—a Carthaginian dish held in abhorrence among other nations.
1956 51 241/2 Pliny is noncommittal about the value of a method which Virgil..suggests for increasing the size of legumes (soaking the seeds in olive lees and soda before planting..).