Pottage \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.