pottage
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈpɑtədʒ/
Noun

pottage

  1. (archaic or historical) A thick soup or stew, made by boiling vegetables, grains, and sometimes meat or fish, a staple food throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
    • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate 2010), page 328:
      He is a portly man, though he lives on pottage and mashes.
  2. (archaic) An oatmeal porridge.



This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.004
Offline English dictionary