Crossword clues for potage
potage
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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).
Wiktionary
n. a thick creamy soup
WordNet
n. thick (often creamy) soup [syn: pottage]
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.
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.