† red colen.1
Obsolete.
= red cabbage n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1e(d).
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red coleOE
brisoka1340
red colewort?a1500
rape-cole1597
red cabbage1597
loaf-cabbage1727
sugar-loaf1766
drumhead1783
sugar-loaf cabbage1786
Yorkshire cabbage1786
York1823
palm-kale1853
Scotch curlies1855
thousand-head kale1887
cut-and-come-again1888
OE Recipe (Wellcome 75.46) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1890) 84 326 Grinde reades caules sædes ane handfulle on piporcwyrna.
c1300 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 55 [Brassica] anglice red cowele.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 35v Of wortez forsoþ braccica, i. rede caulez [?c1425 Paris reede cole; L. brasica, i. caules rubei]..is most vile metez.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 42 (MED) Rede cole hane parte of potage is.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. vi. 554 The first kind of the red Cole is called of..Plinie in Latine Brassica Cumana.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chou rouge, the bitter red Cole; or the garden red Colewort.
1747 T. Short Medicina Britannica 125 For Hoarseness, take Juice of red Cole, two Parts.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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