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

His remedies were principally extracted from herbs; and colewort, or cabbage, was his favourite cure38.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John

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 Rogers, Charles

Picture these people, then, in very simple natural wool-coloured dresses going about their ordinary country life, attending their bees, their pigs, sheep, and cattle, eating their kele soup, made of colewort and other herbs.

From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton

As the Thebans swore by Osiris, the Ionians by the cabbage and the colewort, so also in Athens Minerva formed the staple of the national oaths.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian