olive-oily

comparative more olive-oily · superlative most olive-oily · alternative olive oily

1. With olive oil.

   Heap onto hot olive-oily pasta.

   2003, Miranda Innes, Getting to Mañana, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 290

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   Rounds of olive-oily focaccia are scattered with coarse salt and rosemary, scallions, or tomato sauce.

   2007, Patricia Unterman, Patricia Unterman’s San Francisco Food Lover’s Pocket Guide, Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 101

   THE HEALTHIEST DIET AFTER A HEART ATTACK / Is it the low-fat, low-cholesterol diet touted by the American Heart Association? Is it the olive-oily Mediterranean diet, which studies show protects entire populations from heart disease? It’s both.

   2008, Bill Gottlieb, “Heart Disease & Stroke: Easy Ways to Clean Your Arteries”, in Bottom Line’s Breakthroughs in Drug-Free Healing: Thousands of the Best Science-Proven Natural Remedies to Curb, Cure and Prevent Common Ailments and Serious Conditions, Stamford, Conn.: Bottom Line Books, →ISBN, page 225, column 1

   From her mother Mary Rose inherited, along with “the pipes,” youthful skin, thanks to a Mediterranean heritage and an olive-oily diet.

   2015, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Adult Onset, Portland, Ore.; Brooklyn, N.Y.: Tin House Books, →ISBN, page 43

   You’ll pass a traditional panificio (bakery; there’s another at Via Palestro #34) where you can say, “Vorrei un etto di focaccia” to treat yourself to about a quarter-pound of the region’s famed, olive-oily bread (€1, plenty for two).

   2015, Rick Steves, Italy 2016 (Rick Steves’ Europe), Berkeley, Calif.: Avalon Travel, →ISBN, page 443

   Butter makes food delicious and, if a dish isn’t based in the olive-oily Mediterranean region, I often fry in a combination of half butter and half olive oil, so you get flavour and a higher burning point.

   2015, Hattie Ellis, The One Pot Cook: 150 Recipes for Feeding Family & Friends, London: Head of Zeus Ltd, →ISBN, page 230

2. Resembling or characteristic of olive oil.

   The taste is indeed pure salt, chewy salt, a little sour, but without the olive-oily taste of her father’s salt-cured olives.

   2004, Cris Mazza, Homeland, Los Angeles, Calif.: Red Hen Press, →ISBN, page 119

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   A motherly woman lived there with her son, Luigi, a gay young man with an olive-oily skin, glistening teeth and a rubbery smile.

   1952, Paul Brickhill, “The Man who Would Not Die”, in Escape—or Die: Authentic Stories of the R.A.F. Escaping Society, London: Pan Books Ltd., published 1956, page 106

   Unlike Bunnahabhainn, it is not that easy to drink, either, having such a bland, rather olive-oily taste that you end up geting^([sic]) fed up with very quickly.

   1992, Tom Morton, “Islay”, in Spirit of Adventure: A Journey Beyond the Whisky Trails, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN, page 149