spinage

English

Noun

spinage (countable and uncountable, plural spinages)

1. Obsolete spelling of spinach.
   • 1764, Elizabeth Moxon, English Housewifery Exemplified‎:

     Take a quart of good boiling pease which put into a pot with a gallon of soft water whilst cold; add thereto a little beef or mutton, a little hung beef or bacon, and two or three large onions; boil all together while your soop is thick; salt it to your taste, and thicken it with a little wheat-flour; strain it thro' a cullender, boil a little sellery, cut it in small pieces, with a little crisp bread, and crisp a little spinage, as you would do parsley, then put it in a dish, and serve it up.

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• pages in, peasing, spaeing

Middle English

Noun

spinage

1. alternative form of spinach