potager

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

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

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.

• Portage, portage, top gear

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.ta.ʒe/

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From potage +‎ -er.

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

1. potager

potager m (plural potagers)

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

Ellipsis of jardin potager.

potager m (plural potagers)

1. vegetable garden

• “potager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• potynger, potenger, poteger, potagere, potagare, podenger, pottyger

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

• IPA^(key): /pɔˈtaːdʒər(ə)/

potager (plural potagers)

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

• English: pottager, potager; pottinger; porringer
• Scots: pottinger

• “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.