POT-AU-FEU • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Pot-au-feu

... scattered upon the floor. The room was very neat, although its furniture was poor and scanty; and by the brown saucepan perched upon the top of the diminutive German stove, which had strayed, as it were, from its chimney corner into the middle of the room, we knew that the pot-au-feu was in preparation. Madame, before whom was a small table covered with the unfinished portions of a corset, was very agreeable—rather coquettish, indeed, we should have said in England. Her eyes were bright and cheerful, and her hair drawn back from ...

— A Tramp's Wallet - stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France • William Duthie