collard dial. and U.S.
(ˈkɒləd)
Also 8 collart.
[Phonetic corruption of col'ort, colewort.]
A variety of cabbage which does not heart; = colewort 2.
| 1755 Connoisseur No. 91 (1774) III. 148 Fed for cheapness with nothing but collart-leaves and chopt straw. 1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 71 The turnips being sold off in autumn and replaced by collards. 1847 Halliwell I. 264/1 Collard, Colewort. East. 1883 C. F. Smith Southernisms in Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 46 In the South no word, as no dish, is better known among the poorer whites and negroes than collards or greens. [1890 Correspt. ‘Well known in Essex’; cf. 1881 Oxfordsh. Gloss. Suppl., Collets, small spring cabbage. 1888 Berksh. Words, Colluts, young cabbages.] |