potager
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English pottager, from Middle French potager, from potage. The pronunciation is sometimes altered to imitate the pronunciation of French potager.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
potager (plural potagers)
- A kitchen garden; sometimes used attributively.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 398:
- while he could not get into it until he obtained the keys from Bechet the notary, he had a picnic or two in the dilapidated garden and the herb potager, now run hopelessly to seed and weed.
- (obsolete) A porringer.
- 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis: Or, A Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and preſerved at Greſham Colledge, page 372:
- An INDIAN DISH or Potager. Made alſo of the Barque of a Tree, with the Sides and Rim ſewed together after the manner of Twiggen-Work.
Translations[edit]
kitchen garden
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Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Adjective[edit]
potager (feminine potagère, masculine plural potagers, feminine plural potagères)
Noun[edit]
potager m (plural potagers)
- warming oven (a type of obsolete stone oven)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
potager m (plural potagers)
Further reading[edit]
- “potager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French potager; equivalent to potage + -er.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
potager (plural potagers)
- A dish for soups and puddings; a porringer.
- A cook who handles vegetables or soups.
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “potāǧer, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-22.
- “potāǧer(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-22.
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