Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Leaves of collard, eaten as a vegetable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Colloq. Souther U. S. Young cabbage, used as “greens”; esp. the leaves of a kind cultivated for that purpose, the collard or colewort.
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- noun Plural form of
collard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun kale that has smooth leaves
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Examples
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It’s sweeter with plain collards, if they’re cheap.) 1/2 teaspoon butter
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I also used a Trader Joe’s bag of cleaned, cut collards mixed with turnip and mustard greens, as it was cheaper (and more time-saving) at $2.29/pound than plain collards, especially after accounting for the heavy discarded stems.
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If y'all want to call collards 'racist' food ', go right ahead ...
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Linda B from MS 2010
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It was pressingly necessary to provide a residence for the President, or presiding Professor, and also a Steward's Hall, wherein the hungry students of the period might turn hog and hominy, beef and potatoes and the juicy "collards" into muscle and bones and brains and nerves.
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884
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It was pressingly necessary to provide a residence for the President, or presiding Professor, and also a Steward's Hall, wherein the hungry students of the period might turn hog and homony, beef and potatoes and the juicy "collards" into muscle and bones and brains and nerves.
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They have habitations more like houses -- log-cabins, commonly, sometimes chinked, oftener not -- without windows of glass, but with a few pieces of substantial old-fashioned heir-loom furniture; a vegetable garden, in which, however, you will find no vegetable but what they call "collards" (colewort) for "greens"; fewer dogs; more swine, and larger clearings for maize, but no better crops than the poorer class.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856
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In October, winter crops such as collards, broccoli, cabbage, turnips and kale were planted on Davis Street in Monroe.
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Shoaf, who has been farming for more than 20 years, offers many of the same seasonal crops as Cid Farm but will have additional spring items such as collards and carrots and fall seasonal items such as butternut squash and sweet potatoes, according to his brochure.
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In October, winter crops such as collards, broccoli, cabbage, turnips and kale were planted on Davis Street in Monroe.
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In October, winter crops such as collards, broccoli, cabbage, turnips and kale were planted on Davis Street in Monroe.
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