Smallage

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Celery in its wild uncultivated form. uncountable

    "Chop the smallage exceeding small and put it in a good half hour before you are to take your posset from the fire: You are to season your Gruel with a little Salt, at the due time; and you may put in a little Nutmeg, and Mace to it."

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leaf celerymarch

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"Chop the smallage exceeding small and put it in a good half hour before you are to take your posset from the fire: You are to season your Gruel with a little Salt, at the due time; and you may put in a little Nutmeg, and Mace to it."

Etymology

From Middle English smalache, equivalent to small + ache (“celery, parsley”).

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