Cabbagetown
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See also: Cabbage Town
English
Etymology
- (Toronto): From the 19th-century, when mid-century immigrants from Ireland and the Balkans started growing cabbages in their front yards.
- (Atlanta): From the post-Reconstruction Era, when late-19th-century Appalachian newcomers of Scots-Irish descent moved in, and started growing cabbages in their front yards.
Proper noun
Cabbagetown
- A neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, filled with semi-detached Victorian houses.
- 2014, Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven, Picador (2022), page 11:
- Jeevan lived in Cabbagetown, north and east of the theatre.
- A neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, rebuilt after the American Civil War. A National Register of Historic Places (NRHP-)listed district.
- Alternative form of Cabbage Town