Pottage

//ˈpɑtɪd͡ʒ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A thick soup or stew, made by boiling vegetables, grains, and sometimes meat or fish, a staple food throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. archaic, countable, historical, uncountable

    "And they have not in many places, neither pease ne beans ne none other pottages but the broth of the flesh."

  2. 2
    thick (often creamy) soup wordnet
  3. 3
    An oatmeal porridge. archaic, countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat wordnet
  5. 5
    A dish made by stewing plantain, beans, or yam in a tomato- and pepper-based sauce. Nigeria, countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English pottage, from Anglo-Norman and Old French potage, equivalent to pot + -age.

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