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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.
[L. spinacia.] A plant of the genus Spinacia.

Definition 2024


spinage

spinage

English

Noun

spinage (countable and uncountable, plural spinages)

  1. 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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