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Quotation dates: 1513-1606
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Oil-dolive, Oyle-de-olive, n. Also: oil-dolife, -doleve, (-deleve), oyl(e)-dolyve, -dooleve; ole-de-olife, ule-de-olyve, -olive, (oy-d'oleif). [ME. oile de olive (c 1400); oille dolive (1419), otherwise appar. only Sc., OF. oyle, olle d'olive (14th c.), 16th c. F. huille d'olif.Cf. also Oil-doly, Oil-olive, Oil-de-oleo, and oil of the olive, Oil(l n. 1 b (3).]
Olive oil.(a) 1513 Doug. vi. iii. 134.
Cowpis and goblettis warpit in the fyre Ful of oyl dolyve [Sm. oil dolive, Ruddim. oil oleue], brynt vp brycht and schyre 1539 Treasurer's Accounts VII. 50.
Oil dolife 1541 Ayr Common Good Acc.
For ane chopin of oil doliue to the bellis, iij s. 1573 Reg. Privy C. II. 269.
Oy d'oleif 1576 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 561.
Oyldoleve 1597 Household Bks. Jas. VI and Anne 30 Apr.
Oildeleue 1598 Ib. 20 June.
Oildoleue 1598 Ib. 29 June.
Oyledooleue(b) 1540 Treasurer's Accounts VII. 357.
Ule de olive 1541 Ib. VIII. 118.
For thre chopinnis ule de olyve … for clengeing thairof [culverins] 1550–1 Ayr B. Acc. 112.
Ole de olife 1560 Admir. Ct. Bk. MS. 114.
Vledeolyve 1562–3 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 182.
Ule de olyve 1598 Household Bks. Jas. VI and Anne 30 Sept.
Ane pynt oyledeoliue 1606 Dunferm. B. Rec. II. 23.
For ane pigg oyle de olive to the knock
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