pottage
noun
pot·tage
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Definition of pottage
: a thick soup of vegetables and often meat
Examples of pottage in a Sentence
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Indeed, for millennia, in the West as well as the East, bowls were the vessel from which ordinary people ate all their meals, because most cooking consisted of some kind of soup or stew or pottage, ladled from a common pot. — Bee Wilson, WSJ, "The Comfort of Bowl Food," 13 July 2018 Yet there’s no glue — not a whiff of life or a single substantial, grounding directorial idea — that makes this pottage work scene to scene. — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, "Review: ‘The Snowman’ Is a Thrill-Free Thriller Tied in Knots," 19 Oct. 2017 The leaders of this wing trade their evangelical witness for a mess of political pottage and a Supreme Court nomination. — John Fea, Washington Post, "Trump threatens to change the course of American Christianity," 17 July 2017 Jacob gives him lentil stew (sometimes translated as pottage, mess, broth), and in exchange the clumsy, ruddy Esau gives up his firstborn rights. — Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, "Leaving a Religion and a Marriage, and Gaining a Chicken Soup," 23 Jan. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'pottage.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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pottage
noun
English Language Learners Definition of pottage
old-fashioned
: a thick soup of vegetables and often meat
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