Meanings (ES + gloss)
avenate
A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.
[…]Father had one of his awful colds, so Dora persuaded him not to go to London, but to stay cosy and warm in the study, and she made him some gruel. She makes it better than Eliza…
[…]her own cook at South End, a young woman hired for the time, who never had been able to understand what she meant by a basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin.
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