colewort
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“Collards is a corruption of colewort — colewort is any non-heading cabbage,” said Dr. Harris, the author of “High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey From Africa to America.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2021
These words are evidently of the same class, though not of the same species with bishopric, colewort, spillikin, gossip, mainswearer, &c.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The huile de colza, extracted from the colewort, is still very largely used, and is an excellent oil for lamps; and acetylene is beginning to take the place of coal-gas as an illuminator.
From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by William Walton
The same facts are observed in vegetables; the celery sprung from the nauseous and bitter apium graveolens, and the colewort, is metamorphosed into the cabbage and the cauliflower.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
The aid of a Highland leech was procured, who probed the wound with a probe made out of a castock; i.e., the stalk of a colewort or cabbage.
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott
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