pot-au-feu

noun

A thick soup of meat and vegetables cooked together in a large pot.

OriginFrench pot-au-feu →
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Meanings

nounpot-au-feu (usually uncountable, plural pot-au-feus or pots-au-feu)

plural pot-au-feus · plural pots-au-feu · alternative pot au feu

  1. uncountableusuallyA thick soup of meat and vegetables cooked together in a large pot.

    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
  2. uncountableusuallyA large cooking pot.

    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”, in Bentley's Miscellany, page 203

Origin

  1. Frenchpot-au-feu
  2. Englishpot-au-feu

Borrowed from French pot-au-feu.

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Translations

Japanese ポトフ
  • ポトフ (potofu)soup
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APA

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Chicago

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