pottage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pottage
1175–1225; Middle English potage < Old French: literally, something in or from a pot 1; see -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
Fleas in the pottage bowl, Fleas in the bread, Bloodsucking fleas In the blankets of our beds, Nibbling our buttocks And the backs of our knees, Biting and delighting Through the night — those fleas!
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
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