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

"I could be sorry for these men," he said, "ay, and for that poor Queen, but what avail earthly sorrows to a man of fourscore?—and it is a rare dropping morning for the early colewort."

From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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 Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

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 Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)