pottage in English
noun
1
soup or stew.
Most meals would have been some form of stew, soup or pottage cooked in a cauldron over the central hearth of the house.
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "pottage" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "pottage", or refer to the context using the word "pottage" in the English Dictionary.
1. 7 Prettiness makes no pottage.
2. 13 I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish.
3. For a bottle of milk,5 a misspelled name,6 a mess of pottage,7 birthrights and inheritances have been traded.
4. Of course, even in the Golden Age, not everyone could afford such luxuries and the everyday meal of the ordinary Dutchman was still a humble affair of grain or legume pottage served with rye.