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
“That yam pottage I bought from Mama Owerre.”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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