margarine
pronunciation
How to pronounce margarine in British English:
UK [ˌmɑ:dʒəˈri:n]
How to pronounce margarine in American English:
US [ˈmɑrdʒərən]
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- Noun:
- a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
Word Origin
- margarine
- margarine: [19] Margarine was invented in 1869 by the French food technologist Hippolyte Mège-Mouries. Its name was based on margaric acid, a term coined by the French biochemist Michel-Eugène Chevreul for a fatty acid which he believed to be one of the constituents of animal fats (the earliest margarine was made from clarified beef fat). He derived it from Greek margarítēs ‘pearl’ (source also of English marguerite [19], and of the names Margaret and Margot), an allusion to the pearly lustre of the acid crystals. The abbreviation marge dates from the 1920s.=> marguerite
- margarine (n.)
- butter substitute, 1873, from French margarine (see margarin). Invented 1869 by French scientist Hippolyte Mège-Mouries and made in part from edible fats and oils. The "enterprising merchant" of Paris, who sells Margarine as a substitute for Butter, and does not sell his customers by selling it as Butter, and at Butter's value, has very likely found honesty to be the best policy. That policy might perhaps be adopted with advantage by an enterprising British Cheesemonger. ["Punch," Feb. 21, 1874]
Example
- 1. The duke of margarine thinks me a serpent .
- 2. Other sources include fortified margarine , and breakfast cereals .
- 3. They now scrutinize labels for hazards like trans fats and have switched from margarine to heart-healthy olive oil .
- 4. Most of the cookies are made either from butter or margarine and both of them are high in the bad fat .
- 5. Vegetable oil and margarine showed double-digit price rises while poor harvests and increased transportation costs led fruit to its biggest price increases since april of last year .