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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

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

Put into another stew-pan a fine Savoy cabbage, with a pint of the dripping of beef or pork.

From Domestic French Cookery, 4th ed. by Sulpice Baru?

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