Did you possibly mean one of these? courtier, tourtière
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Canada alternative spelling of tourtière.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a meat pie that is usually eaten at Christmas in Quebec
Examples
“Living in Quebec and having French Canadian relatives, the tourtiere is definitely a part of our Christmas celebration.”
“I made tourtiere for dinner this past Christmas and it was lovely.”
“I'm pretty clueless about Canadian cuisine as well outside of tourtiere, and now that I think about it, I'd be hard-pressed to describe "American" cuisine as well.”
“On Christmas Eve GC and I worked our weekly shift in the soup kitchen at the Shepherds of Good Hope, serving up tourtiere pie and cauliflower soup and pastries.”
“Wait a second: Adela, you use apples in your tourtiere?”
“I have so many different tourtiere recipes both old and new world.”
“Oh, my, I thought Robert's 'cake' would be more like tourtiere, but it's even more horrific-sounding than Spam.....”
“Your tourtiere looks quite good even for my very critical French Canadian eyes.”
“Ignore poutine, tourtiere & smoked meat: go for sugar pie.”
“On the menu were the main staples of a Franco festival: tourtiere and salmon pie.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tourtiere’.
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Pies: Just like Grandma Used to Make ...
Pies, Tarts, Turnovers, and other flaky or wrapped lovelies
wonton, whoopie pie, Washington pie, tourtiere, tortilla, torta, tiropita, Tarte Tatin, tarte au sucre, sweet potato pie, strawberry rhubar..., steak and kidney pie and 64 more...
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Maineisms
Some of these were taken from older literature and have fallen out of use in the past few decades, but many are still used today in the same way they were used a century ago. By no means a compreh...
Yankeedom, wizzled, wing and wing, wickie-up, whiffletree, weewaw, wangan, wainy, upstair, twice-laid, tunket, trig and 136 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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Winter Food & Drink
What may be partaken during winter holidays.
gingerbread, pfeffernusse, pfefferkuchen, parkin, fruitcake, panforte, stollen, lebkuchen, laufabraud, black bun, hardbake, trifle and 39 more...
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