Translation for '
pottage' from English to Icelandic
| NOUN | a pottage | pottages | |
| SYNO | potage | pottage |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- In Tudor England, some of those who begged door-to-door for "milk, yeast, drink, pottage" were thought to be witches.
- Pottage ordinarily consisted of various ingredients easily available to peasants.
- A mess of pottage is something immediately attractive but of little value taken foolishly and carelessly in exchange for something more distant and perhaps less tangible but immensely more valuable.
- Some common Tiv foods are "ruam kumen" (pounded yam), "ruam nahan" (turned food), "akuto" (sweet potato pottage), choko (dafa), akpukpa", etc.
- In the consumption of pottage, the Low Countries were not very different from other Western European countries during the Middle Ages.
- The manuscript contains recipes for things such as butter of almond milk, roasted duck, a meat pottage and a sweet-and-sour fish preparation.
- The basic grain pottage could be elaborated with vegetables, meat, cheese, or herbs to produce dishes similar to polenta or risotto.
- Ale was an important source of nutrition in the medieval world. It was one of three main sources of grain in the diet at the start of the fourteenth century in England, along with pottage and bread.
- "The mess of pottage," "S4N", 4th issue (February 1920).
- It is essentially a pottage, a stew of meat and vegetable with its base as the Nigerian pepper soup.
- He was averse to "peddling away the people's birthright for any mess of cornlaw pottage".
- As a young adult, he sold his birthright to his brother Jacob for a portion of "red pottage".
- "Seven Sharp" was criticized around its inception for its new format, with some media commentators saying that "TVNZ exchanged "Close Up" [...] s current affairs for a mess of pottage".
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