Well attestedNamed from the place
Aleppo soap
noun · first attested Middle Ages
The laurel oil, not the olive oil, is what makes it Aleppo soap.
A hard olive oil soap enriched with laurel berry oil, made in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
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- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- Middle Ages
- Part of speech
- noun
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Aleppo
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Aleppo soap
Aleppo sat where Mediterranean olive groves met the overland caravan routes, and its soapmakers stacked the cut bars in open towers to cure for months before export. The Syrian war scattered the trade, and much soap sold under the name is now made by Aleppan families working in Turkey and France.
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