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borecole|ˈbɔəkəʊl|
Also 8 boorcole.
[prob. ad. the Du. name boerenkool lit. ‘peasant's cabbage’.]
A loose or open-headed variety of the cabbage, cultivated under the name of Kale.
1712Arbuthnot Hist. John Bull (1755) 24 His children..live upon salt herring, sowre crud, and borecole. 1813C. Marshall Garden. xv. (ed. 5) 222 Borecole or cale is a hardy green. 1850Gard. Chron. 276 Borecole also called Kail. |