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- noun Plural form of
colewort .
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Examples
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Amongst herbs to be eaten I find gourds, cucumbers, coleworts, melons, disallowed, but especially cabbage.
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Its south-eastern limits may have contained the “City of Norchie, the best situated of any place hitherto seen in Ethiopia,” where Father Merolla (p. 280) baptized 126 souls, — and this is rendered probable by the crucifixes and coleworts which were found by the First Congo
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Yea but, said I, my friend, what is the name of that city whither thou carriest thy coleworts to sell?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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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 2002
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The first man I met with there was a good honest fellow planting coleworts, whereat being very much amazed, I asked him, My friend, what dost thou make here?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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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 2002
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The first man I met with there was a good honest fellow planting coleworts, whereat being very much amazed, I asked him, My friend, what dost thou make here?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Yea but, said I, my friend, what is the name of that city whither thou carriest thy coleworts to sell?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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A feast was prepared, at which there were doves, thrushes, coleworts, and toasted cheese, besides many other things.
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If reset in the following spring, they will furnish an abundance of tender sprouts, which, when cooked, are superior in flavor and delicacy to the cabbage, and resemble coleworts or Brussels sprouts.
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