Meanings
plural potagers
- A kitchen garden; sometimes used attributively.
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.
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 398 - obsoleteA porringer.
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.
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
Origin
- Middle Frenchpotager
- Middle Englishpotager
- Englishpotager
From Middle English potager, from Middle French potager, from potage. The pronunciation is sometimes altered to imitate the pronunciation of French potager.
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Hungarian konyhakert
- konyhakertkitchen garden
Welsh lluarth
- lluarthkitchen garden
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