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pot-au-feu

pot-au-feu noun: a thick soup of meat and vegetables cooked together in a large pot.

Noun

pot-au-feu (usually uncountable, plural pot-au-feus or pots-au-feu)

  1. (usually) A thick soup of meat and vegetables cooked together in a large pot.
    • The meat and vegetables for our pot-au-feu cost only twelve sous, or sixpence sterling — a cheap dish indeed!1824, Thomas Gill, The Technical Repository, page 180
  2. (usually) A large cooking pot.
    • The chez la portiere is its imitation, en petit; every homely subject is there discussed, from the pot au feu to another sort of pot.1839, “Parisian characteristics”, in Bentley's Miscellany, page 203

Forms of pot-au-feu

pluralpot-au-feus
pluralpots-au-feu
alternative formpot au feu

Origin of pot-au-feu

Borrowed from French pot-au-feu.

Questions about pot-au-feu

What does pot-au-feu mean?
Pot-au-feu means a thick soup of meat and vegetables cooked together in a large pot.
What part of speech is pot-au-feu?
Pot-au-feu is a noun.
What is the plural of pot-au-feu?
The plural of pot-au-feu is pot-au-feus.

Words near pot-au-feu in the dictionary

  1. pot up
  2. pot wheel
  3. pot wheels
  4. pot, kettle, black
  5. pot, meet kettle
  6. pot-au-feu
  7. pot-au-feus
  8. pot-bellied
  9. pot-bellied pig
  10. pot-bellied pigs
  11. pot-bellied seahorse

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