cibol, ciboule
(ˈsɪbəl)
[a. F. ciboule: see chibol. This has been used for a long time in Scotch, where it is reduced to sybow, sybo = cibow = ciboll.]
Another form of chibol.
| 1632 Sherwood, Cibboll, comme Chibboll. 1696 Phillips, Cibols, small Onions eaten in sallads. 1699 Evelyn Acetaria (1729) 134 Scalions or Cibbols, are degenerate Onions. 1708–21 Kersey, Cibol, Ciboule, or chibbol, a kind of small degenerate onion. 1755 Johnson, Cibol, a small sort of onion used in salads. This word is common in the Scotch dialect; but the l is not pronounced. 1778 T. Mawe Univ. Gardener s.v. Allium, The Ciboule or Welch Onion is a perennial plant. 1832 Veg. Subst. Food 289 The Welsh onion, or ciboule..originally from Siberia..a hardy plant..strong in flavour..known in England since the..seventeenth century. |