Synonymer & Information om | Engelska ordet OLEAGINOUS

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• He dresses in buckskin with a dark oleaginous luster, doubtless due to the fact that he has lived on fat venison and killed many beavers since he first donned his uniform years ago.
• His wife, Alice Binney, created the portmanteau name of the brand by combining elements of two words: craie (French for chalk) and ola for "oleaginous" (meaning "oily"), since the crayons were made using a petroleum-based wax.
• Wilberforce was one of the greatest public speakers of his day but was known as "Soapy Sam" (from a comment by Benjamin Disraeli that the Bishop's manner was "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous").
• The name Crayola was suggested by Alice Binney, wife of company founder Edwin Binney, combining craie, French for "chalk," a reference to the pastels that preceded and lent their name to the first drawing crayons, with the suffix -ola, meaning "oleaginous," a reference to the wax from which the crayons were made.

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