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‖ pot-pourri|popuri, pɒtˈpʊərɪ|
Also 7 pot porride.
[F. pot pourri, in same senses, lit. ‘rotten pot’, f. pot pot n.1 + pourri, pa. pple. of pourrir:—L. putrēre to be rotten; translating Sp. olla podrida.]
†1. A dish of different kinds of meat stewed together; a stew, hotch-potch. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Pot pourri, a pot porride; a Spanish dish of many seuerall meates boyled, or stued together. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict., Pot-pourri, a Culinary Term, signifying an Hotch-Potch.
2. a. A mixture of dried petals of different flowers mixed with spices, kept in a jar for its perfume. Also fig.
1749Lady Luxborough Let. to Shenstone 28 Nov., It..might be called a pot-pourri, which is a potful of all kinds of flowers which are severally perfumes, and commonly when mixt and rotten, smell very ill. 1855S. Whiting Heliondé 71 A couch, which..was made of pot-pourri, or some mixture of dried flowers peculiar to the Sun. 1863Lytton Caxtoniana II. xxii. 94 A blue china jar, filled with pot-pourri. 1888Bow Bells Weekly 29 June 408/2 Recipes for ‘Pot-pourri’... Collect rose leaves and lavender as they bloom, and place them in a jar in layers, with common or bay-salt... Add to them powdered orris-root, cloves [etc.]. 1911D. H. Lawrence White Peacock ii. ix. 344 The squire's lady has written a book filling these meadows and the mill precincts with pot-pourri romance. 1930W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale iv. 51 On little Chippendale tables stood large Oriental bowls filled with pot-pourri. 1960R. Hemphill Fragrance & Flavour 79 If the pot-pourri becomes too dry add more salt, and if too moist add more orris root powder.
b. transf. A container designed to hold pot-pourri.
1770J. Wedgwood Let. 20 Aug. (1965) 94 Or have an Auction..of Statues;..Lamps, Potpouri's [etc.]. 1960R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pott. & Porc. 381/1 Faience in the Swedish/Dutch style was made, that is useful pottery.., and ornamental pieces, (pot-pourris, tureens, etc.). 1971L. A. Boger Dict. World Pott. & Porc. 268 Potpourri... In ceramics; the name is given to a container designed with a delicate perforated cover used to hold a mixture of potpourri. 1975Times 19 Dec. 16/5 Among Minton's copies of Sèvres porcelain, a pair of bleu-de-roi ground pot-pourris and covers made {pstlg}1,375.
3. fig.
a. Mus. A series of airs strung together into one piece; a medley.
b. A literary medley, or collection of miscellaneous extracts.
c. Any diverse collection or assortment (of people or things).
1855Illustr. London News 29 Dec. 755/2 The overture to the pantomime consisted of a pot-pourri of those popular tunes which the professors of the street-organ have been insisting on during the past year. 1864Webster, Pot-pourri... (c) A piece of music made up of different airs strung together... (d) A literary production made up of parts brought together without order, or bond of connection. 1866G. H. Lewes Let. 1 July in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1956) IV. 282 There drink the sparkling water and lounge in the sun listening to the tolerable band performing overtures..pot-pourris and waltzes. 1881in Grove Dict. Mus. III. 22 Pot-pourri, a name first given by J. B. Cramer to a kind of drawing-room composition consisting of a string of well-known airs. 1894G. B. Shaw in Fortnightly Rev. Feb. 256 My first Richard III..turned out to be a wild pot-pourri of all the historical plays. 1898S. R. Hole in 19th Cent. Apr. 647 There is no time for further enjoyment of this sweet, spicy Pot-pourri; no space for further extracts from this clever and comprehensive book. 1921H. Crane Let. 25 Dec. (1965) 75 We have a houseful of indiscriminate relatives and it has been hard to collect myself for even this potpourri. 1946R.A.F. Jrnl. May 151 We blue⁓printed it as a pot-pourri of comment and opinion on Service life and manners. 1971World Archaeol. III. 193 All the work, except firing, takes place..amid the characteristic potpourri of tools, vessels, mats and clutter found in such household work areas. 1977Time 28 Feb. 8/2 The election of December 1973 split the Folketing among a potpourri of ten parties. 1978F. Maclean Take Nine Spies ii. 49 A pot-pourri from Franz Lehar's latest opera.
4. attrib. and Comb., as pot-pourri bowl, pot-pourri jar, pot-pourri vase.
1889Daily Tel. 8 Mar. 3/3 There are some,..to whom the ‘Two Roses’ come as fresh as a bright June morning,..but some there are who,..will find instead merely a ‘pot-pourri’ jar full of dried rose leaves.
1875E. Meteyard Wedgwood Handbk. 407 Pot-Pourri Vases. Decorated vessels for containing rose leaves and other scents were formerly much used. 1900M. E. Wilkins Parson Lord (Tauchn.) 58 Love removed the lid from a potpourri-jar. 1903Blackw. Mag. Oct. 451/1 The pot-pourri-scented drawing-room led into a conservatory. 1904Daily Chron. 17 June 8/3 The soft, delicate perfume of some old china pot-pourri bowl. 1957Mankowitz & Haggar Encycl. Eng. Pott. & Porc. 162/1 Less frequent are such pieces as..pot-pourri vases. 1974Savage & Newman Illustr. Dict. Ceramics 230 Pot-pourri vase, a vase, sometimes richly mounted in gilt-bronze, which is characterized by pierced decoration on the shoulder or cover, or both. |