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pottage
(encz) | pottage,hustá polévka n: Zdeněk Brož |
Pottage
(gcide) | 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.
[1913 Webster]
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils.
--Gen. xxv.
34.
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pottage
(wn) | pottage
n 1: a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat
2: thick (often creamy) soup [syn: potage, pottage] |
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mess of pottage
(encz) | mess of pottage, n: |
Pottage
(gcide) | 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.
[1913 Webster]
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils.
--Gen. xxv.
34.
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mess of pottage
(wn) | mess of pottage
n 1: anything of trivial value; "Esau sold his birthright to
Jacob for a mess of pottage" |
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