ADJ.
best
VERB + POTTAGE
lives
POTTAGE + NOUN
lentils
PREP.
on, with
noun
A thick soup or stew, made by boiling vegetables, grains, and sometimes meat or fish, a staple food throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
And they have not in many places, neither pease ne beans ne none other pottages but the broth of the flesh.
He is a portly man, though he lives on pottage and mashes.
An oatmeal porridge.
A dish made by stewing plantain, beans, or yam in a tomato- and pepper-based sauce.
noun — thick (often creamy) soup
To make an unfavorable exchange, especially of something of great, but deferred value, for something of very low, but immediate value.
An elector, who by his vote should contribute to the establishment of a constitution having for its effect, instead of the greatest happiness of the greatest number, the greatest o
Something of trivial value, especially of immediate value.
And they have not in many places, neither pease ne beans ne none other pottages but the broth of the flesh.
WiktionaryHe is a portly man, though he lives on pottage and mashes.
WiktionaryAnd so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went on his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.
Tatoeba · #7867857French toast is best with spinach pottage.
Tatoeba · #10730799i Register
In some senses, pottage is marked as archaic, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.