cabbage
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Peta pitched the idea as an opportunity to support local farmers who grow cabbage.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Animal rights activists want a small seaside town to change its annual mackerel festival to celebrate the humble cabbage instead.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The Taylor family is credited with helping to pioneer numerous innovations, from bagged salads to the U.S. industry’s first automated harvesters for romaine lettuce, cabbage and celery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The first night, I topped bowls with avocado and sour cream; the second, I spooned leftovers over white rice with shredded cabbage and green onion left over from another dinner earlier in the week.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
For lunch she had brought rice and cabbage with a touch of bacon grease on the rice.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
But, worse . . . state and city officials have cabbaged on to this beautiful protective machinery we have placed in their hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
The shorn tailor left the office protesting that Sir Peter had not treated him handsomely, as he had only consented to sacrifice his flowing locks, but that the Alderman had cabbaged his whiskers as well.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 by Various
They run out of all they cabbaged here perty quick.
From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee
In an evil moment he "cabbaged" some cloth, was detected, tried, condemned, and sentenced to twenty months' imprisonment.
From Prisoner for Blasphemy by G. W. (George William) Foote
"Who's the nervy party with the chin whiskers that's cabbaged Hinpoha?" asked the Captain of Sahwah, scowling crossly after the leading boat, which was already drawing away from the rest of the party.
From The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit Or, over the Top with the Winnebagos by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
The next step I took was to order William Francis, John Thompson, Samuel Picket, and Joshua Peck to be taken into custody, on their return from cabbaging.
From An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter
And what a touching sight it is of a Saturday afternoon to see the poor, careworn clergymen gathered together in that vast reading—room cabbaging sermons for Sunday.
From Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain
Does not this look very much like what we call "cabbaging?"
From Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various
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