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Compare botargo.

Noun

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potargo

  1. A kind of sauce or pickle.
    • 1709, William King, Art of Cookery:
      What lord of old would bid his Cook prepare Mangos, potargo, champignons, caveare?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for potargo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)