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‖ manteca Obs.|manˈteka|
Also 7 manteque, mantegue, 8 mantecu.
[Sp. manteca (= Pg. manteiga, of obscure origin) butter, also applied to other fatty substances. Cf. F. mantèque (Buffon), also mantègue (corruptly mantègne).]
A kind of butter or substitute for butter.
The Sp. manteca de puerco (hog's lard) occurs in R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1593–1622).
1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 8 They brought in..their melted butter called Manteque. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 165 A great deal of Mantegue or a kind of Butter comes running out at the holes. 1743Pococke Descr. East I. 186 note, They carry in them [vases] the butter called Mantecu. 1748Earthquake of Peru iii. 271 The Use of what they call Manteca, being Hogs-lard and Beef-suet, which they use instead of Butter. |