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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
colcannon
 
SYLLABICATION:col·can·non
PRONUNCIATION:  kl-knn
NOUN: An Irish dish of mashed potatoes and cabbage, seasoned with butter.
ETYMOLOGY:Irish Gaelic cál ceannan : cál, cabbage (from Old Irish, from Latin caulis) + ceannan, white-headed ( ceann, head, from Old Irish cenn + fionn, white, from Old Irish find; see weid- in Appendix I).
 
 
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  Colbert, Jean Baptiste Colchester  
 
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