Also colsa. [a. Walloon and Fr. colza, earlier colzat, a. L.Ger. kôlsât, Du. koolzaad COLE-SEED.] The French name of COLE-SEED. Colza-oil: the oil expressed from the seeds, much used for burning in lamps.
1712. trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 10/2. The Seed of a Kind of wild Colly-Flower, which they call in Flanders Colsa.
1830. Mech. Mag., XII. 463/2. Colza Oil, or Huile de Colza, is extracted from the grain of the Brassica Arvensis, or Campestris.
1884. May Crommelin, Brown Eyes, ix. 97. Bees in Drenthe … taken to travel in carts during the summer season by all the flowering colza fields.
1886. Miss Braddon, One Thing Needful, I. iv. 71. The white parlour looked so bright and home-like and cheery, in the light of a large swinging colza lamp, under a yellow umbrella-shaped shade.
