dial. and U.S. 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.
1845. in Halliwell (‘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. ‘Well known in Essex,’ Correspt.; cf.
1881. Oxfordsh. Gloss. Suppl., Collets, small spring cabbage.
1888. Berksh. Words, Colluts, young cabbages.]
