slawn.
/slɔː/, U.S. /slɔ/ North American.
A salad made of sliced cabbage, etc. Also, any dish the main ingredient of which is sliced cabbage.
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1794 Massachusetts Spy 12 Nov. A piece of sliced cabbage, by Dutchmen ycleped cold slaw.
1861 T. Winthrop Cecil Dreeme xiv. 157 Pad of butter. Plate of slaw, ready vinegared.
1864 Daily Tel. 9 Feb. Salted cucumber, beetroot and cold slaugh.
1890 Daily News 23 Dec. 5/2 Salsify, cold slaw (sliced cabbage) with rich mayonnaise dressing.
1905 N.Y. Evening Post 23 Sept. 2 Mince pie, hokey-pokey ice cream, over-ripe watermelon, frankfurters with hot slaw—all the less expensive and less desirable articles of diet go to stunt the gamin's growth.
1916 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 143/1 In Canada it [sc. celery cabbage] is used for cold slaw.
1944 Sun (Baltimore) 1 Nov. 10/7 It was customary in his family in his boyhood to serve a ‘hot slaw’ with turkey, the slaw consisting of cabbage cooked with vinegar and sugar.
1977 National Observer (U.S.) 22 Jan. 9/1 If she craves tossed salad when the price of lettuce is high, she resolutely buys cabbage and makes slaw instead.
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