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cabbage. Ask for a head of cabbage and you are repeating yourself, for cabbage means “head,” the name of the vegetable deriving from the Old French caboce, “swollen head.” Caboce itself comes from the Old French boce, “a swelling,” the ca in the word very likely suggested by the Latin caput, meaning “head.” Cabbage, probably the most ancient of vegetables, has been cultivated for more than 4,000 years. In Greek mythology it is said to have sprung from sweat on the head of Jupiter. The Greeks also believed that eating it cured baldness. |