pot-au-feu
See also: pot au feu
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French pot-au-feu.
Noun
pot-au-feu (usually uncountable, plural pot-au-feus or pots-au-feu)
- A thick soup of meat and vegetables cooked together in a large pot.
- 1824, Thomas Gill, The Technical Repository, page 180:
- The meat and vegetables for our pot-au-feu cost only twelve sous, or sixpence sterling — a cheap dish indeed!
- 1824, Thomas Gill, The Technical Repository, page 180:
- A large cooking pot.
- 1839, "Parisian characteristics", Bentley's Miscellany, page 203:
- The chez la portiere is its imitation, en petit; every homely subject is there discussed, from the pot au feu to another sort of pot.
- 1839, "Parisian characteristics", Bentley's Miscellany, page 203:
French
FWOTD – 22 April 2016
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /pɔt‿o fø/
Noun
pot-au-feu m (plural pots-au-feu)
- Meat and vegetables cooked together in a large pot.
- 1798, Nicolas-Joseph Sélis (ed), Dictionnaire de l'Académie Françoise, volume 2, page 332:
- On dit, Pot-au-feu, en parlant de la quantité de viande destinée à être mise dans le pot. (One says "pot-au-feu", in reference to the meat put into the pot.)
- 1798, Nicolas-Joseph Sélis (ed), Dictionnaire de l'Académie Françoise, volume 2, page 332:
- A cooking pot.
- 11 October 1673, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Lettres (1646-1696):
- Je mets le pot-au-feu avec de la chicorée amère; cela bout jusqu'au point du jour. (I put the pot on the fire with bitter chicory at the break of day.)
- 11 October 1673, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Lettres (1646-1696):
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