A corruption of COLE-SLAW. Raw cabbage, cut in fine shreds, and served with vinegar. Du. Koolsla.

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1794.  A piece of sliced cabbage, by Dutchmen ycleped cold slaw.—Mass. Spy, Nov. 12.

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1821.  Some of them read the invitation to eat “cold slaw” and beef.—Penna. Intelligencer (Harrisburg), March 23.

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1843.  I’d know … whether they preferred cold-slaugh cut lengthwise or crosswise of the cabbage.—Cornelius Mathews, ‘Writings,’ p. 189.

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a. 1850.  I’m a withered cabbage now, torn up by the roots and chopped into cold-slaugh.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ i. 258.

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1856.  A small plate containing some fossil remains of a petrified cabbage-stump steeped in cider, intended to represent cold-slaw.—Ballou’s Magazine, iii. p. 378

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1862.  To leave my coleslaugh which was so good.—Trans., ‘Les Misérables,’ iii. 499. (N.E.D.)

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