soapolallien.
/ˈsəʊpəʊlali/ North American.
1. A thick drink made from crushed soapberries. Cf. soapberry n. 2b.
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the world > food and drink > drink > fruit juice or squash > [noun] > other juices or squashes
apple juice?1585
bunnell1594
cherry-water1662
juniper-water1666
fig-water1747
orange-peel water1757
cider1846
sirop1871
pomegranate water1879
soapolallie1895
apfelsaft1934
grapefruit juice1934
1895 Canad. Mag. Aug. 344/1 We were fortunate enough to see some Indians eating ‘soapolali’.
1944 C. Barbeau Mountain Cloud 199 Here are the stems of blackberries and the wild fruit of the hills that gives sopelalee.
1966 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 27 Feb. 6/2 There was [at the potlatch] also a great deal of oolachan-grease and soapollalie.
2. = soapberry n. 2b. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > soapberry or buffalo berry
buffalo-berry1805
bulberry1841
soapberry1904
soapolallie1937
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [adjective] > of plants producing edible berries > of other edible berry plants
susumber1814
berberal1866
loganberry1926
soapolallie1937
salmon berry1971
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > soapberry bush
soapolallie1957
1937 T. M. Stanwell-Fletcher Jrnl. 23 Sept. in Driftwood Valley (1946) 33 On drier, more open ridges..are..dense thickets of small Shepherdia, or soopolallie, bushes.
1953 A. F. Fluke Kwakiutl 21 The berries of the ‘soopolally’ bush..were dried and stored whole.
1957 J. R. Christie & I. M. Christie Story Okanagan Falls 42 One little shrub, the Indians' ‘soopolallie’..bears its gay red currant-like berries now only for the birds to enjoy.
1976 T. Walker Spatsizi xii. 139 The soap olallie leaves were a darker green, and the fruit larger.
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