Candy oil

English

Etymology

From Candy (historical name for the island of Crete) + oil.

Noun

Candy oil (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Olive oil, especially oil imported from Crete.
   • 1593, Job Throckmorton (cousin of Walter Raleigh), business record cited in A. L. Rowse, Sir Walter Ralegh: His Family and Private Life, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962, Chapter 11, p. 192,^[1]

     sallet Candy oil excellent good at 16d. the quart

   • 1600, entry in the Court Records of the East India Company, 15 January, 1600, cited in Henry Stevens (editor), The Dawn of British Trade to the East Indies as Recorded in the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1599-1603, London: Henry Stevens & Son, 1886, p. 114,^[2]

     Geven a warrant to Aldⁿ Bayninge: ffor paym^t of ł 80: to W ffisher ffor 24 barrells of candy oyle at 3^li . 6^s . 8^d p barrell

   • 1615, Richard Cocks, diary entry, 20 October, 1615, cited in Edward Maunde Thompson (editor), Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615-1622, Volume 1, London: Hakluyt Society, 1883, p. 77,^[3]

     I wrot a letter to Albaro Muños in answer of his, and another to Diego Farnando Rigote to geve 3 or 4 gantos candy oyle to Jorge Durois and sel the rest as he can.

   • 1635, John Taylor, The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Or, The Age and Long Life of Thomas Par, London: Henry Goffon, in Works of John Taylor, the Water Poet, Publications of the Spenser Society, Issue 7, 1870, p. 21,^[4]

     His Physick was good Butter, which the soyle

     Of Salop yields, more sweet than Candy oyle,

Anagrams

• alcyonid, cyanidol