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

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 Walton, William

Kail, colewort; broth is commonly termed kail; but, properly speaking, it is not kail until the second day.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

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)