Meaning & use
Pottage
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A thick soup or stew made by boiling vegetables, and sometimes meat, together.
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The peasants shared a simple pottage of lentils and root vegetables.
In the biblical story, Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of pottage.
A note on using this word
Now mostly archaic or literary, surviving chiefly in the phrase 'a mess of pottage,' meaning something of little value traded for something of much greater worth.
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