smallage
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English smalache, equivalent to small + ache (“celery, parsley”).
Noun edit
smallage (uncountable)
- Celery in its wild uncultivated form.
- 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, A Garden of Herbs: Being a Practical Handbook to the Making of an Old English Herb Garden, page 123:
- 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.
Synonyms edit
- march (obsolete)