水みず油あぶら

noun

hair oil; camellia oil; rape oil

Traditional Japanese hair oil, often made from camellia or rapeseed oil. Used historically for grooming.

• 昔むかしの女じょ性せいは水みず油あぶらで髪かみを整ととのえた。

  Women in the old days styled their hair with mizuabura.

noun

kerosene; paraffin; lamp oil

An older term for kerosene or lamp oil, now largely replaced by 灯油 (とうゆ). Still understood in historical contexts.

• 水みず油あぶらランプは明めい治じ時じ代だいに広ひろく使つかわれた。

  Kerosene lamps were widely used in the Meiji period.