muslin kail

noun

Scotland : broth of barley and greens

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Scot.

barley broth or barley and vegetable soup.

[1775-85; MUSLIN (perh. in the sense "thin")]

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muslin kail,

Scottish. a broth of water, shelled barley, and greens.

╂[< muslin + kail, variant of kale (perhaps because of the thinness of the broth)]