Raw cabbage, sliced. [See also COLD SLAW.]
1861. I wanted to leave the slaw; but Selleridge said, ‘No; slaw and oysters was man and wife, and he should n’t be easy in his mind if he sent one out and kep’ the other.’—Theodore Winthrop, ‘Cecil Dreeme,’ p. 157 (N.Y., 1876).
