tureen
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7.6
- noun
- /tʊˈrin/
:
sopera
- She filled the elegant tureen with hearty vegetable stew for the dinner party.
- a soup tureen
- a silver tureen
- a porcelain tureen
Examples
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To serve the hot soup, place it in a large tureen and bring it to the table.
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Soon, the waiters were ladling soup from their tureens.
Fiction book (2001) -
Did you register for a soup tureen?
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Jimmy appeared with a tureen of peas.
Fiction book (1999) -
Prepare the tureens, warm the bowls.
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I subsisted quite nicely on the bean soup you left in that large tureen in the room with the sink and the shower.
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Jerome placed the tureen in front of his master and lifted the lid with a white-gloved hand.
Fiction book (1991) -
The supper that night featured a seafood pasta served in a porcelain tureen.
Fiction book (1990) -
Every Sunday, Mama presided over the big tureen at breakfast, when we'd have boiled fish and crisp little johnnycakes.
Fiction book (1995) -
Livre observed Marie-Louise ladle some pea soup from a silver tureen.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
370
1.0
A round deep dish with an open top used to hold food or liquid
329
1.0
A shallow round container used for holding or serving food
13
2.7
A deep dish used for cooking and serving food in the oven
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Etymology
Tureen comes from the French word terrine, which comes from terre meaning 'earth', because these deep serving dishes were first made from clay. So a tureen is a large, deep serving dish for soups or stews.