pottage

[ pot-ij ]
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noun
  1. a thick soup made of vegetables, with or without meat.

Origin of pottage

1
1175–1225; Middle English potage<Old French: literally, something in or from a pot1; see -age

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How to use pottage in a sentence

  • Mr. Churchill at Glasgow, showed the real hand and the mess of pottage so amiably offered at Berlin bought no German birthright.

    The Crime Against Europe | Roger Casement
  • It is the spirit of Esau, who bartered the right of the first-born to the promise of the covenant for one mess of pottage.

British Dictionary definitions for pottage

pottage

/ (ˈpɒtɪdʒ) /


noun
  1. a thick meat or vegetable soup

Origin of pottage

1
C13: from Old French potage contents of a pot, from pot pot 1

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