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pot⋅tage

  [pot-ij]
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–noun
a thick soup made of vegetables, with or without meat.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME potage < OF: lit., something in or from a pot 1 ; see -age
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pot·tage   (pŏt'ĭj)   
n.  

  1. A thick soup or stew of vegetables and sometimes meat.

  2. Archaic Porridge.


[Middle English potage, from Old French, from pot, pot; see potiche.]
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Word Origin & History

pottage 
c.1225, lit. "that which is put in a pot," from O.Fr. potage "soup," from pot "pot" (see pot (1)).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

Pottage

Heb. nazid, "boiled", a dish of boiled food, as of lentils (Gen. 25:29; 2 Kings 4:38).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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