Tureen

Word TUREEN
Character 6
Hyphenation tu reen
Pronunciations /təˈɹiːn/

Definitions and meanings of "Tureen"

What do we mean by tureen?

A broad, deep, usually covered dish used for serving foods such as soups or stews. noun

A deep dish with a cover, for holding liquids at table; especially, such a vessel, holding a gallon or more, intended for soup. noun

A large, deep vessel for holding soup, or other liquid food, at the table. noun

A broad, deep serving dish used for serving soup or stew. noun

Large deep serving dish with a cover; for serving soups and stews noun

A broad, deep serving dish used for serving soup or stew.

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The word "tureen" in example sentences

The large silver tureen, which is now enjoying a dignified old age on our sideboards, had then place at the foot of the table. ❋ Unknown (1909)

_Tureen_ -- How and whence is the term "tureen" derived? ❋ Various (N/A)

Though it's pronounced "tureen," like the soup bowl, Terrene's name is meant to evoke earthiness - and both the name and the restaurant do. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"And now, my lad," said Stolpe, taking the cover from the "tureen," "now you are admitted to the corporation of masons, and you are welcome! ❋ Martin Andersen Nex�� (1911)

The traditional potato soup was customarily served in a sterling silver soup tureen such as those found in the exhibition. ❋ Jay Weston (2011)

Personally, I'd rather eat a vat of fried rice than a plate of cold jellyfish or a tureen of shark fin soup any day, but then my tastes are not exactly refined. ❋ Unknown (2012)

They get emotional breakdowns, drug-running and terminal illnesses; we get the cast of Downton Abbey blushing over a footman buffing the wrong tureen. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Stop yer blitherin ', an' go an 'get the tureen cover,' Behane commanded Johnny Sheehan, at the same time dealing him a heavy cuff alongside the head. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My mom's parents usually came supplied with a tureen of corn or green beans and a pumpkin pie, though if we were lucky enough to had found decent cooking apples this early in the season we would also have apple squares or a pie of our own as well (bonus for me, since I detest pumpkin pie!), not to mention a chocolate cake for my pie-hating sister. ❋ Sarah (2009)

Bean and his director, Nicholas Hytner, have managed to make the dinner scene funnier than ever by adding a character: an octogenarian waiter, magnificently played by Tom Edden, whose hand alarmingly quivers as he serves a tureen of soup and who has an amazing capacity to fall backwards down stairs and return like a rubber ball. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The soup could have done with a little more of a kick, but even so it was a butch bit of summer in a tureen. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On the table the image is by Chardin, “Still Life with a Bottle of Olives,” made from candle light, the black beyond and a wooden table on which is a composition of glowing soup tureen, pears and pomegranate, two glasses and traces of wine, a loaf of bread face down on a cutting board and the present giving way to the past. ❋ Stephen Hastings-king (2011)

Just when you think the joke of the doddery old servant, whose shaking hand is required to carry a soup tureen and who falls backwards down the stairs, can go no further, they build on it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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