pottage Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat
  2. noun thick (often creamy) soup
    potage.

WordNet

Pot"tage noun
Etymology
F. potage, fr. pot pot. See Pot, and cf. Porridge, Porringer.
Definitions
  1. A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. Written also potage. Chaucer.
    Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. Gen. xxv. 34.

Webster 1913