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  • noun Plural form of cabbage.

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Examples

  • To old-guard, Protestant Cincinnati, Barney Kroger, for all his money, was still a rough-spoken farm boy who got his start selling cabbages from a horse-drawn cart.

    The Cincinnati Grocer's Kid Stephen Birmingham 2010

  • Even TV channels that are supposed to carry heavyweight stuff will toss in cabbages such as pro-Nessie arguments without moderation by the skeptics.

    Radio in decline David 2007

  • Rose suggested that Okra, also known as 'Ladies Fingers', and certain Chinese cabbages are increasingly being studied and seen as a popular new vegetable to spice up the taste and nutrition benefits of dishes.

    AP-FoodTechnology RSS 2009

  • Rose suggested that Okra, also known as 'Ladies Fingers', and certain Chinese cabbages are increasingly being studied and seen as a popular new vegetable to spice up the taste and nutrition benefits of dishes.

    FoodNavigator-USA RSS 2009

  • Rose suggested that Okra, also known as 'Ladies Fingers', and certain Chinese cabbages are increasingly being studied and seen as a popular new vegetable to spice up the taste and nutrition benefits of dishes.

    BeverageDaily RSS 2009

  • The classical example of this is the treatment, before eating, of yams (Dioscorea spp.) and keladis, taros, cocoyams (aroid yams of the genera Colocasia, Xanthosoma, Amorphophallus), tapioca, cassava (Manihot esculenta Cranz), and the so-called cabbages of palms.

    Chapter 19 1979

  • The cabbages were a dream which seems never to have materialized even to the point of being a source of expense, and history speaks no more of it.

    Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

  • Morton Pippitt, though, for 'e sez, sez' e: 'MY cabbages are the prize vegetable, grown by Mr. Smogorton of Worcester, F.R.H.'

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Morton Pippitt, though, for 'e sez, sez' e: 'MY cabbages are the prize vegetable, grown by Mr. Smogorton of Worcester, F.R.H.'

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Morton Pippitt, though, for 'e sez, sez' e: 'MY cabbages are the prize vegetable, grown by Mr. Smogorton of Worcester, F.R.H.'

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

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