Pottage

Definitions

1. A thick soup or stew, made by boiling vegetables, grains, and sometimes meat or fish, a staple food throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
   archaic, countable, historical, uncountable
2. An oatmeal porridge.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
3. A dish made by stewing plantain, beans, or yam in a tomato- and pepper-based sauce.
   Nigeria, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“And they have⟳ not in many places, neither pease ne beans ne none other pottages but the broth of the flesh.”

“He is a portly man, though he lives on pottage and mashes.”

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