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Definition of Cabbagy
1. cabbagey [adj] - See also: cabbagey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cabbagy
Literary usage of Cabbagy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kate Greenaway by Marion Harry Spielmann, George Somes Layard (1905)
"You have got rid of the spur-like shadows, but where, even in England, do you
see such cabbagy trees as on pages 5, 7, 29 ? You might find a better pattern ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1850)
"... no cabbagy green to give a mental cholic as you look ; but up into the still
air they raise their sober branches, covered with tints of respectable and ..."
3. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1835)
"Of the earlier dwarf kinds, some probably will be fit for cutting, in small
cabbagy heads, at the close of April or beginning of May: the others will be in ..."
4. Reminiscences of Court and Diplomatic Life by Georgiana Liddell Bloomfield Bloomfield (1883)
"The trees are just beginning to lose the very cabbagy green of summer; and it is
so pretty to see the deer among the ferns. Altogether, Windsor is certainly ..."
5. A Woman's Wanderings in the Western World by Clara Fitzroy (Kelly) Bromley (1861)
"... character of the ground is infinitely improved in a picturesque point of view
by the intermixture of these graceful trees with the cabbagy-looking ..."
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