POTTAGE

potage, pottage

(noun) thick (often creamy) soup

pottage

(noun) a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

pottage (countable and uncountable, plural pottages)

(archaic or historical) A thick soup or stew, made by boiling vegetables, grains, and sometimes meat or fish, a staple food throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.

(archaic) An oatmeal porridge.

Source: Wiktionary


Pot"tage (; 48), n. Etym: [F. potage, fr. pot pot. See Pot, and cf. Porridge, Porringer.]

Definition: A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also potage.] Chaucer. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. Gen. xxv. 34.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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