Middle English Dictionary Entry
caboche n.
Entry Info
| Forms | caboche n. Also cabache, caboge, cabage. |
| Etymology | NF caboche, caboce head. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A head of cabbage; (b) the European cabbage plant (Brassica oleracea).
Associated quotations
a
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5278/26 : Pro sinape, oleribus, caboches, et aliis herbis et lekes.
- (1393) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52221/31 : Item pro caboch et oleribus, j duc. xlij s.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.12 : Take Caboches and quarter hem and seeth hem in gode broth.
- (1420-21) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.499 : De Johanne Baker', pro..caboches.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)426 : Take cabaches and cut hom on foure.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)6 : Take fayre caboges, an cutte hem.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)69 : Take faire cabochis, pike hem and wassh hem.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)521 : Iusselle, tartlett, cabages, & nombles of vennure, alle þese potages ar good and sure.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)85 : To mak cabages wortis, tak whit cabage..and parboile them..put fat brothe of beef in a pot..put in thy cabages..all to brokene.
b
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)p.147 : Caulus gallica is an herbe men clepe caboches..þis herbe hat quyte lewys and brode, and it growyth as it were a mannys heed.
- a1500 Sln.Herb List (Sln 1201)74 : Herbys necessary for a gardyn..Cabage.
- a1500 Sln.Herb List (Sln 1201)75 : Of the same Herbes for Potage..Cabagez.
2.
A fish; prob., the English bullhead (Aspidophorus cataphractes).
Associated quotations
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)641/31 : Nomina piscium..Hic caput: caboche.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)57 : Caboche [Win: Cabache]: Currulia.