Pottage Definition

pŏtĭj
noun
A kind of thick soup or stew made of vegetables, or meat and vegetables.
Webster's New World
Porridge.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Pottage

Noun

Singular:
pottage
Plural:
pottages

Origin of Pottage

  • Middle English potage from Old French from pot pot potiche

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Anglo-Norman, Old French potage, from pot + -age.

    From Wiktionary

Pottage Sentence Examples

  • They use much pottage made of coal-wort, which they call kail, sometimes broth of decorticated barley.

  • Steaks include fresh seasonal vegetables and choice of pottage.

  • Most of these would have been used as ingredients in soup, called pottage.

  • The occupants of Edom during practically the whole period of Biblical history were the Bedouin tribes which claimed 1 A curious etymological speculation connects the name with the story of Esau's begging for Jacob's pottage, Gen.

  • To the pope they offered a mess of pottage in the shape of annates and the right of canonical institution, in order to induce him to sell the Church of France to the king.

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