Bath Oliver

noun

1. a kind of unsweetened biscuit

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bath Oliver¹

C19: named after William Oliver (1695–1764), a physician at Bath

Example Sentences

This much-maligned matrix is the thing that gives dough its elasticity, allowing it to stretch into beautiful big, blistered bubbles in the oven, rather than staying resolutely solid, like one of those boxed supermarket pizza bases that passed for authentic in the 1980s, but now resemble nothing more than a Bath Oliver biscuit.

From The Guardian

The three tall towers are two cocoa tins and a Bath Oliver tin, very brightly polished; the windows and doors and crenellations are of black passe-partout, that nice gummed paper which you buy in reels for binding pictures and glass together when you don't want to have picture-frames.

From Project Gutenberg

They were not, of course, allowed to act on Midsummer Night itself, but they went down after tea on Midsummer Eve, when the shadows were growing, and they took their supper—hard-boiled eggs, Bath Oliver biscuits, and salt in an envelope—with them.

From Project Gutenberg

‘Have a Bath Oliver,’ said Dan, and he passed over the squashy envelope with the eggs.

From Project Gutenberg

A bottle of bovril embedded itself quietly there without damage, and a tin of Bath Oliver biscuits beat a fierce tattoo on one of corned beef.

From Project Gutenberg