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Rotkohl

Rotkohl noun: red cabbage.

Noun

Rotkohl (uncountable)

  1. (US, dialectal) Red cabbage.
    • This one, who held the annual title, comic to the English but a beautiful reality to the German, of Miss Sauerkraut, had in her pallid tall glory exactly the texture of that well-prepared vegetable. A dab of rotkohl would not have harmed her cheeks. Miss Civitavecchia took a deep breath and began...1956, William Sansom, A Contest of Ladies
    • Emil Arnstedt paused with the forkful of Rotkohl suspended under his lips. He slipped it into his mouth and spoke as he chewed: […]1975, Bernard Packer, Caro: A Novel

Examples of Rotkohl in a sentence

  • A dab of rotkohl would not have harmed her cheeks.1956, William Sansom, A Contest of Ladies:
  • I got out [some garbled words] around a mouthful of Rotkohl.2020, Madeline Bell, Gaby - More Changes, →ISBN, page 305:

Origin of Rotkohl

From German Rotkohl.

Questions about Rotkohl

What does Rotkohl mean?
Rotkohl means red cabbage.
How do you use Rotkohl in a sentence?
A dab of rotkohl would not have harmed her cheeks.
What part of speech is Rotkohl?
Rotkohl is a noun.

Words near Rotkohl in the dictionary

  1. rotisserized
  2. rotisserizes
  3. rotisserizing
  4. ROTJ
  5. Rotko
  6. Rotkohl
  7. Rotkreuz
  8. rotl
  9. rotla
  10. rotlet
  11. rotlets

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