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单词 popote
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popoten.

Brit. /pəˈpɒt/, /pəˈpəʊt/, U.S. /pəˈpɑt/, /pəˈpoʊt/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French popote.
Etymology: < French popote (1857), apparently a transferred use of popote soup, gruel, pap (although this is first attested slightly later: 1869 in Littré), hypocoristic alteration of poupette (see below), with suffix substitution (compare -otte , variant of -ot -ot suffix), probably also influenced by pot pot n.1 French poupette (end of the 15th cent. in Middle French) is itself a hypocoristic alteration (with reduplication) of souppette soup, especially for a child (although this is first attested later: 1576; < soupe soup n. + -ette -ette suffix). O.E.D. Suppl. (1982) gives the non-naturalized pronunciation (popot) /pɔpɔt/.
French Military.
A kitchen, a canteen; a soldiers' mess.
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1928 Observer 11 Mar. 17/7 By 1870 the young cook had become a chef, and he had charge of the kitchen of the Headquarters of the Army of the Rhine and later of MacMahon's Headquarters Mess, or ‘popote’, at Versailles during the Commune.
1934 A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 74 This..is the story..as they tell it..in the smoky popotes of the French army.
1966 J. Dos Passos Best Times (1968) ii. 43 The French cooks were getting dinner at the popote behind me.
1990 Times (Nexis) 5 Dec. (Overseas news section) Colonel Derville, sitting on Arabian carpets and beside a large silver Arab water pipe in the popote, or officers' field mess.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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