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Webster 1913 Edition


Pottage

Pot′tage

(?; 48)
,
Noun.
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pottage

POT'TAGE

,
Noun.
Broth; soup. [See Potage, the more correct orthography.]