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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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