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Thick (often creamy) soup
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potage
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. thick (often creamy) soup [syn: pottage ]
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Potage (from Old French pottage ; "potted dish"; , , ) is a category of thick soups , stews , or porridges , in some of which meat and vegetables are boiled together with water until they form into a thick mush.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"thick soup," 1560s, from French potage "soup, broth" (see pottage , which is an earlier English borrowing of the same French word).
Usage examples of potage.
They want to see neck bones, gizzards, oxtails, and dirty rice on the menu, not potage of cauliflower with caviar, roast duck in port sauce, or feuillet of squab.
Macomber, inwardly disgusted by such caloric extravagance, selected the potage aux langoustes and the pheasant en casserole.