smallage

English

Etymology

small + French ache (“celery”)

Noun

smallage (uncountable)

Celery in its wild uncultivated form.
- 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, A Garden of Herbs: Being a Practical Handbook to the Making of an Old English Herb Garden, page 123:
  Chop the smallage exceeding small and put it in a good half hour before you are to take your posset from the fire: You are to season your Gruel with a little Salt, at the due time; and you may put in a little Nutmeg, and Mace to it.

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