castile soap

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Cas=tile soap

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun castile soap has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

castile soap,  [From Castile, or Castilia, a province in Spain, from which it originally came.].
     A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive oil and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

castile soap, n. a fine hard white or mottled soap made with olive oil and soda.

Etymology
as CASTILIAN

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