noun
definition
A thick soup or stew, made by boiling vegetables, grains, and sometimes meat or fish, a staple food throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
definition
An oatmeal porridge.
Examples of pottage in a Sentence
They use much pottage made of coal-wort, which they call kail, sometimes broth of decorticated barley.
Steaks include fresh seasonal vegetables and choice of pottage.
Most of these would have been used as ingredients in soup, called pottage.
The occupants of Edom during practically the whole period of Biblical history were the Bedouin tribes which claimed 1 A curious etymological speculation connects the name with the story of Esau's begging for Jacob's pottage, Gen.
To the pope they offered a mess of pottage in the shape of annates and the right of canonical institution, in order to induce him to sell the Church of France to the king.