Pottage

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:09:39

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

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.

 

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