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pottage

American  
[pot-ij] / ˈpɒt ɪdʒ /

noun

  1. a thick soup made of vegetables, with or without meat.

pottage British  
/ ˈpɒtɪdʒ /

noun

  1. a thick meat or vegetable soup

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Etymology

Origin of pottage

1175–1225; Middle English potage < Old French: literally, something in or from a pot 1; -age

Example Sentences

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In effect, for a mess of pottage, a public school sold an inflated but permanent artistic legacy to a private citizen.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022

Yet there’s no glue — not a whiff of life or a single substantial, grounding directorial idea — that makes this pottage work scene to scene.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2017

You could call it a culture, but it was more of a participatory elegy for our own preempted lives, surrendered in advance for a pottage of depersonalized amusements.

From Forbes • Oct. 16, 2014

He’s Esau, consumed by the desire to trade back his mess of pottage for his birthright.

From Time • Aug. 20, 2012

The deacons struck the pottage part from the record.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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