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Potatoes and cabbage pounded together and then fried in butter (Irish). “Col” is cole or cale, i.e. cabbage.
“About 1774 Isaac Sparks, the Irish comedian, founded in Long Acre a Colcannon Club.”—The Athenœum, January 20th, 1875.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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