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posceta

posceta [ME posset < OF *posce < CL posca] , hot drink made of curdled milk and ale or wine, often sugared and spiced, ‘posset’. s1428 ad cenas suas percipiant de coquina cibaria salubria, videlicet, ova elixa, cocta, et assata, cum †candellis [MS: caudellis], et parosthetis [l. poscetis], et scrutis assatis Chr. S. Alb. 1422–31 29.

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