Category:Pottage

Pot"tage (48), n. Etym: [f. potage, fr. pot pot. See pot, and cf. Porridge, porringer.]

Defn: 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. Genesis 25:34.

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Pottage - Heb. nazid, "boiled", a dish of boiled food, as of lentils (Genesis 25:29; 2 Kings 4:38).