\Pot"tage\ (?; 48), n. [F. potage, fr. pot pot. See
{Pot}, and cf. {Porridge}, {Porringer}.]
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.