potage

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How often have I made him reproaches because he will leave the best of his potage, and pour it in the saucer for this cat!

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  • I had a potage, fish —anything but fresh, and, according to English predilections and taste, of course I ordered a beef-steak and pommes de terre. —  Reminiscences of Captain Gronow
  • For the left wing to ask us to give up our freedom in exchange for a mess of potage (communism)? —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • How often have I made him reproaches because he will leave the best of his potage, and pour it in the saucer for this cat! —  Susan A Story for Children
  • And that in the days when there was not too much potage, look you, for either of us. —  Susan A Story for Children
  • It's not much meat a family gets that's reared on nine shillings a week After a series of calculations for oatmeal-porridge, onion-potage, and other modest dainties, during which Mrs. Bundle constantly fell back on the "bits of things in the garden," I said decidedly They can't have any clothes, so it's no good thinking about it Children can't be let go bare-backed," said Mrs. Bundle, with equal decision. —  A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son
 

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/pəˈtɑzh/
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