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Webster 1913 Edition
Spinage
{
, Spin′ach
,Spin′age
}Noun.
[OF.
espinache
, espinoche
, F. épinard
; cf. F. spinace
, Sp. espinaca
; all fr. Ar. isfānāj
, isfināj
, aspanākh
, probably of Persian origin.] (Bot.)
A common pot herb (
Spinacia oleracea
) belonging to the Goosefoot family. Mountain spinach
. See
– Garden orache
, under Orache
. New Zealand spinach
(Bot.)
, a coarse herb (
Tetragonia expansa
), a poor substitute for spinach.☞ Various other pot herbs are locally called spinach.
Webster 1828 Edition
Spinage
SPIN'ACH
, SPIN'AGE,Noun.
Definition 2024
spinage
spinage
English
Noun
spinage (countable and uncountable, plural spinages)
- Obsolete spelling of spinach
- 1764, Elizabeth Moxon, English Housewifery Exemplified:
- Take a quart of good boiling pease which put into a pot with a gallon of soft water whilst cold; add thereto a little beef or mutton, a little hung beef or bacon, and two or three large onions; boil all together while your soop is thick; salt it to your taste, and thicken it with a little wheat-flour; strain it thro' a cullender, boil a little sellery, cut it in small pieces, with a little crisp bread, and crisp a little spinage, as you would do parsley, then put it in a dish, and serve it up.
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