kitchen herb

plural kitchen herbs

1. Any herb grown for culinary use; a potherb.

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   In the monastic colloquy, an exercise for students, who were to be "bilingues," capable of conversing in their own language and in that of Rome, which is, therefore, quite destitute of artifice or ambition, a boy is asked what he has to eat. His reply is, worts (that is, kitchen herbs), fish, cheese, butter, beans, and flesh meats.

   1865, Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft or Early England, volume II, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, page xi