cellery

English

Noun

cellery (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of celery.
   • 1733, Vincent La Chapelle, The Modern Cook, volume II, London: […] the Author, and sold by Nicolas Prevost, […], page 301:

     TAKE ſome Heads of Cellery, pick and blanch them.

   • 1788, Richard Briggs, The English Art of Cookery, According to the Present Practice; Being a Complete Guide to All Housekeepers, on a Plan Entirely New, London: […] G. G. J. and J. Robinson, […], page 60:

     […] have ready some cellery cut ſmall and boiled tender, a handful of ſpinach ſtewed and ſqueezed very dry, put them into the ſoup, and boil it up ten minutes; […]

   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 188:

     Mr. Elton was still talking, still engaged in some interesting detail; and Emma experienced some disappointment when she found that he was only giving his fair companion an account of the yesterday’s party at his friend Cole’s, and that she was come in herself for the Stilton cheese, the north Wiltshire, the butter, the cellery, the beet-root and all the dessert.