Potage vs Congee - What's the difference?
potage | congee |
(obsolete) Formal departure, ceremonial leave-taking.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.i:
(archaic) A bow.
*, II.17:
* 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
As nouns the difference between potage and congee
is that potage is a thick creamy soup while congee is formal departure, ceremonial leave-taking.congee
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* conge *Noun
(en noun)- So courteous conge both did giue and take, / With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.
- As salutations, reverences, or conges , by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous.
- “My daughter Rebecca, so please your Grace,” answered Isaac, with a low congee , nothing embarrassed by the Prince’s salutation, in which, however, there was at least as much mockery as courtesy.