Pot-au-feu

Origin

Borrowing from fr {{2}}.

Full definition of pot-au-feu

Noun

1. A thick soup of meat and vegetables cooked together in a large pot.
• 1824, Thomas Gill, The Technical Repository, page 180:The meat and vegetables for our pot-au-feu cost only twelve sous, or sixpence sterling — a cheap dish indeed!
2. A large cooking pot.
• 1839, "Parisian characteristics", Bentley's Miscellany, page 203: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.