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Meanings of colewort in English
Portuguese
couve-de-folhas A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
Usage of colewort in English
1
I have a brother of my own, and I think no more of him than of a colewort.
2
In these beds, along with the tobacco, they generally sow kale, colewort, and cabbage seed, &c., at the same time.
3
They are served like Lettuce, or boiled and treated as Coleworts or Spinach.
4
The cabbages grown late in autumn and in the beginning of winter are denominated coleworts (vulg.
5
Coleworts plain and curl'd, Savoys; besides the Water-Melons of several Sorts, very good, which should have gone amongst the Fruits.
6
Their food was homely enough, being broth made of coleworts and bacon, with bread and butter, and milk and cheese.
7
'You prepare the way for me, following our influential friend Dubbleson; Colewort winds up; any one else they shout for.