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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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