potager

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English pottager, from Middle French potager, from potage. The pronunciation is sometimes altered to imitate the pronunciation of French potager.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɒtaʒeɪ/, /ˈpɒtədʒə/

Noun

potager (plural potagers)

  1. 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.
  2. (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.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔ.ta.ʒe/
  • (file)

Etymology 1

From potage +‎ -er.

Adjective

potager (feminine potagère, masculine plural potagers, feminine plural potagères)

  1. potager

Noun

potager m (plural potagers)

  1. warming oven (a type of obsolete stone oven)

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of jardin potager.

Noun

Un potager

potager m (plural potagers)

  1. vegetable garden

Further reading

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French potager; equivalent to potage +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔˈtaːdʒər(ə)/

Noun

potager (plural potagers)

  1. A dish for soups and puddings; a porringer.
  2. A cook who handles vegetables or soups.

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