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Potage   /pˈoʊtˌɑʒ/  /pˈoʊtədʒ/   Listen
Potage

noun
1.
Thick (often creamy) soup.  Synonym: pottage.



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"Potage" Quotes from Famous Books



... with him, which he afterward begs him to submit to Madame Sable. He sends a little batch of maxims to her himself, and asks for an equivalent in the shape of good eatables: "Voila tout ce que j'ai de maximes; mais comme je ne donne rien pour rien, je vous demande un potage aux carottes, un ragout de mouton," etc. The taste and the talent enhanced each other; until, at last, La Rochefoucauld began to be conscious of his pre-eminence in the circle of maxim-mongers, and thought ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot

... us that Cardinal Lorraine maintained to him that "they [the Huguenots] desired to bring all to the form of a republic, like Geneva." Smith records the conversation at length in a letter to Cecil, wishing his correspondent to perceive "how he had need of a long spoon that should eat potage with the Devil." The discussion must have been an earnest one. Sir Thomas was not disposed to boast of being a finished courtier. In fact, he declares that, as to framing compliments, he is "the verriest calf and beast in the world," and threatens to get one Bizzarro ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird



Words linked to "Potage" :   pottage, potage St. Germain, soup



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