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potage

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
potage

"thick soup," 1560s, from French potage "soup, broth" (see pottage, which is an earlier English borrowing of the same French word).

Wiktionary
potage

n. a thick creamy soup

WordNet
potage

n. thick (often creamy) soup [syn: pottage]

Wikipedia
Potage

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.