Oleomargarin

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Oleomargarine \O`le*o*mar"ga*rine\, n. [L. oleum oil + E.
     margarine, margarin.] [Written also {oleomargarin}.]
     1. A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by
        separating the greater portion of the solid fat or
        stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of
        olein and palmitin with some little stearin. [archaic]


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     2. An artificial butter made by emulsifying a fatty oil with
        more or less milk and water; it was formerly made
        predominantly from animal fats, but now is made
        predominantly or exclusively from vegetable oils,
        sometimes mixed with animal fats.
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     Note: Oleomargarine was wrongly so named, as it contains no
           margarin proper, but olein, palmitin, and stearin, a
           mixture of palmitin and stearin having formerly been
           called margarin by mistake.
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