pot-au-feu的词源解释,pot-au-feu来源

1812 as a French word in English, originally "boiled meat." From French pot-au-feu, "pot on the fire" which by 17c. in French was common to signify any cooked food. For etymology of pot see pot and for feu see focus.

Deux pots au feu signifie feste, & deux femmes font la tempeste: Prov. Two pots a feast presage, two women mickle rage. [Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues. 1611.]

By 1825 the term in English came to designate the broth that resulted from boiling the meat, moreso than the meat itself.

该词起源时间：1812年