ProbableNamed from the place
Lincolnshire spinach
noun · first attested 19th century
England's older spinach survives as a market-stall crop in one county.
A local English name for Good King Henry, a perennial leaf vegetable cooked like spinach.
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- Named from the place
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- ProbableThe conventional story is likely, with caveats.
- Attested
- 19th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Lincolnshire
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Lincolnshire spinach
Good King Henry was a common cottage garden green before true spinach displaced it, and it held on in Lincolnshire, where it also goes by mercury or markery. A handful of growers there still cut and sell the young shoots in spring.
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