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
Then upon thyme and tansy think, On fields of sainfoin, ruddy pink, On dells deep down and rocks upreared, On lad's-love and on old-man's-beard, On spearmint and on silver sages, On colewort and on saxifrages!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
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
I heard tell likewise of a fresh colewort, from Cyprus in the East—they call it broccoli or kale-flower.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
