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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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