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Savoy cabbage

American  

noun

  1. a variety of cabbage having a compact head of crinkled, blistered leaves.


Etymology

Origin of Savoy cabbage

First recorded in 1700–10

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Mains include pork with kimchi and Savoy cabbage, and start at £16.

From The Guardian Apr. 14, 2019

Five Savoy cabbage heads form a finely textured pyramid.

From Washington Post Oct. 27, 2015

The Bushes' Buckingham Palace menu was consomme with sorrel, roast halibut with herbs, breast of chicken with basil, roast potatoes and Savoy cabbage, followed by vanilla praline and coffee ice-cream.

From BBC May 26, 2011

She had been running, a method of locomotion for which nature had not intended her; her breath came in quick gasps, and her face was as the face of a Savoy cabbage.

From Mrs. Tree by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Description.—The large, very broad, oblong, obtuse, toothed, woolly haired, radical leaves are grayish green and somewhat rumpled like those of Savoy cabbage.

From Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by M. G. (Maurice Grenville) Kains

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