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pottage |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pottage \Pot"tage\ (?; 48), n. [F. potage, fr pot pot. See {Pot}, and cf {Porridge}, {Porringer}.] A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also {potage}.] --Chaucer. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. --Gen. xxv. 34. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pottage n : a stew of vegetables and sometimes meat From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Pottage Heb. nazid, "boiled", a dish of boiled food, as of lentils (Gen. 25:29; 2 Kings 4:38).
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