Lipoleum
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- lipos (Greek) + oleum (Latin): fat + oil → lipoleum (if it were a word) would mean "the [olive] oil made from fat"; cp. petroleum, which means "the oil made from rock." But why does Napoleon = fat-oil?
- lip: backchat, sauce, talking out of turn, insulting speech. A sign of uppitiness of the upstart Napoleon, and a reference to his speeches against the British.
- linoleum: a type of floor-covering impregnated with linseed-oil → FW 021.13: oil cloth flure
