tureen

• “The large silver tureen, which is now enjoying a dignified old age on our sideboards, had then place at the foot of the table.”

  My day : reminiscences of a long life,

• “_Tureen_ -- How and whence is the term "tureen" derived?”

  Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850

• “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.”

  Riverfront Times | Complete Issue

• “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!”

  Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Restaurant review: the Crooked Well

• “The traditional potato soup was customarily served in a sterling silver soup tureen such as those found in the exhibition.”

  The Huffington Post: Jay Weston: Paris: Life & Luxury Exhibit at Getty Museum Displays Wonderful World of Excess

• “They get emotional breakdowns, drug-running and terminal illnesses; we get the cast of Downton Abbey blushing over a footman buffing the wrong tureen.”

  The Guardian: With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses

• “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.”

  The Holidays Come Home

• “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.”

  Fictionaut: Still Life with a Bottle of Olives

• “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.”

  The Guardian: One Man, Two Guvnors – review

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