English

Noun

oil of olives ‎(uncountable)

1. (now rare) Olive oil. [from 14th c.]
   • 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, VIII:

     Oil of olives.—The province of Suse produces great abundance of this oil.