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‖ pot-au-feu|pɔtofø|
[Fr., = pot on the fire.]
A large cooking pot of a kind common in France; the soup or broth cooked in it, spec. the traditional French recipe associated with this. Also attrib. and fig.
1792C. Smith Desmond III. xxiii. 278 The pot au feu was brought forward to receive a supply of leeks. 1841C'tess Blessington Idler in France I. ii. 32 Our good hostess..served up a plentiful dinner, consisting of an excellent pot au feu, followed by fish, fowl, and flesh. 1868C. M. Yonge Chaplet of Pearls I. xxiv. 311 To eat of the savoury mess in the great pot-au-feu. 1868M. Jewry Warne's Model Cookery 55/2 Pot-au-feu, the stockpot. 1909H. James Novels & Tales XV. Pref. p. xvii, We can surely account for nothing in the novelist's work that..hasn't, in that perpetually simmering cauldron his intellectual pot-au-feu, been reduced to savoury fusion. 1934H. Hiler Notes Technique Painting iii. 183 A large glazed earthenware pot (pot-au-feu) which has not been used for any other purpose. 1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xvi. 188 The dish was a pot-au-feu chicken with all its vegetables round it. 1960News Chron. 30 Mar. 6/5, I get out a vast blackened saucepan and make the old-fashioned, traditional French pot-au-feu. 1962Economist 3 Nov. 485/2 This is an intimate family story, relating..Saturday evening pot-au-feu dinners. 1975[see New England boiled dinner s.v. New England b]. |