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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

kale, kail cabbage XIII (cale); cabbage broth XV. north. var. of COLE.
Hence kailyard cabbage-garden (YARD1), familiar since 1895 as an epithet of fiction and its authors (literature of the k., k. school) describing, with much use of the vernacular, common life in Scotland.

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Kale

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Kale ♂ Of uncertain origin, perhaps an Anglicized form of the Irish name Cathal. It may have been invented as a masculine equivalent of Kayley and its variants.

Variants: Caile, Cayle, Cale, Kail(e), Kayle.

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PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Kale." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Kale.html

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kale

World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

kale Hardy, crop plant related to the cabbage. It is short-stemmed and has large, bluish-green, curly-edged leaves. It may reach a height of 61cm (24in). Family Brassicaceae; (sub)species Brassica oleracea acephala.

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kale

A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | 2005 | | Copyright

kale Scottish name for any type of cabbage; in England it means specifically open‐headed varieties of cabbage with curly leaves, also known as curly kale or borecole. Distinct from sea kale or Swiss chard.

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kale

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

kale / kāl/ • n. a hardy cabbage of a variety that produces erect stems with large leaves and no compact head. See also curly kale.

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kale

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

kale •ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, bewail, brail, Braille, chain mail, countervail, curtail, dale, downscale, drail, dwale, entail, exhale, fail, faille, flail, frail, Gael, Gail, gale, Grail, grisaille, hail, hale, impale, jail, kale, mail, male, nail, nonpareil, outsail, pail, pale, quail, rail, sail, sale, sangrail, scale, shale, snail, stale, swale, tail, tale, they'll, trail, upscale, vail, vale, veil, wail, wale, whale, Yale •Passchendaele • Airedale •Wensleydale • Clydesdale •Chippendale • Coverdale • Abigail •galingale • martingale • nightingale •farthingale • Windscale • timescale •blackmail • airmail •email, female •Ishmael • voicemail • vermeil

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