mutton tallow
- noun
- /ˈmʌtən ˈtæloʊ/
:
sebo de cordero
- Traditional soap makers often use mutton tallow as a base ingredient for its hardening properties.
Examples
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Early pioneers relied on mutton tallow for making candles and preserving leather goods.
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The chef rendered mutton tallow to fry potatoes, giving them a distinctive flavor.
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The chef used mutton tallow for frying the vegetables.
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Many people prefer mutton tallow over butter in traditional recipes.
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Early pioneers relied on mutton tallow for making candles and preserving leather goods.
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Traditional soap makers often use mutton tallow as a base ingredient for its hardening properties.
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Many people prefer mutton tallow over butter in traditional recipes.
Synonyms
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8.8
A hard white fat from animals used to make soap and candles and to grease machines
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Melted fat from cows used in cooking and soap making
A waxy fat from plants like bayberry used for candles and soap
A yellowish wax from the berries of some sumac trees used in polishes and candles
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'mutton' (meat/of an adult sheep) with 'tallow' (animal fat): it clearly denotes fat rendered from sheep. This noun-noun compositional pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand it.
Etymology
Mutton tallow comes from farm life where people would melt the fat from grown sheep called mutton to make the hard fat called tallow used for candles, soap, and cooking. So, mutton tallow means 'rendered fat' from mature sheep used for cooking, soap, or candles.