How To Use colewort In A Sentence
- The original of all the cabbage tribe is the wild plant sea-colewort, which is to be found wasting whatever sweetness it may have on the desert air, on many of the cliffs of the south coast of England. The Book of Household Management
- Markham suggests colewort - a sort of cabbage - boiled in ale, the ale to be drunk at every meal.
- Related to kale, which cruciferous vegetable derives its name from the word colewort? Times, Sunday Times
- “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.” The Abbot
- Other names for kale include the Dutch boerenkool (farmer's cabbage) and ‘collards’ (a corruption of colewort and the usual name in the USA) All derive from the Greek kaulos, meaning stem.
- The generic term Colewort is derived from _caulis_, a stalk, and _wourte_, as applied to all kinds of herbs that "do serve for the potte. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
- You are likewise to abstain from beans, from the preak, by some called the polyp, as also from coleworts, cabbage, and all other such like windy victuals, which may endanger the troubling of your brains and the dimming or casting a kind of mist over your animal spirits. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- Close to the waterside a footpath led off downstream, and beside it the abbey's gardens lay neatly arrayed all along the rich plain, and three or four brothers were pricking out plants of cabbage and colewort. The Rose Rent
- It was not until well into the Middle Ages that headed cabbages spread throughout Europe to supplement the staple ' colewort ' or kale.
- Related to kale, which cruciferous vegetable derives its name from the word colewort? Times, Sunday Times
