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
All the varieties of the colewort tribe, including cabbage, cauliflower, brussels-sprouts, broccoli, and curly greens, have been celebrated from very ancient times for their curative virtues in pulmonary complaints.
From Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses by Florence Daniel
Here there was growing and flourishing every thing in the nature of colewort, rape, lettuce, pease and beans, in such a shimmer of light, and in such luxuriance that it is impossible to describe it.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
Runts, the trunks of trees, the stem of colewort.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
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
