单词 | olive press |
释义 | > as lemmasolive press olive press n. any of various devices for extracting the oil from olives; a building housing such a device. ΚΠ 1768 C. Smart Parables xxv. 57 An hundred measures, I confess, I owe sir, from the olive-press. 1824 C. G. Garnett Night before Bridal 57 The olive-press gave out its limpid oil, Broad in the sun the rich tomato glow'd. 1923 C. M. Doughty Mansoul (rev. ed.) iv. 118 Enter where An olive-press wás. 1991 Garden (Royal Hort. Soc.) Jan. p. xiii Nine self-catering cottages, expertly converted from an old olive press. 2000 Trav. & Leisure May 277/1 I may miss Chinese restaurants and bookstores, but I don't need them the way I need..olives in the fall, when they are gathered in glossy green-black heaps at the frantoio or olive press. < as lemmas |
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