Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A broad, deep, usually covered dish used for serving foods such as soups or stews.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A deep dish with a cover, for holding liquids at table; especially, such a vessel, holding a gallon or more, intended for soup.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large, deep vessel for holding soup, or other liquid food, at the table.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A broad, deep serving
dish used forserving soup orstew .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large deep serving dish with a cover; for serving soups and stews
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The large silver tureen, which is now enjoying a dignified old age on our sideboards, had then place at the foot of the table.
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_Tureen_ -- How and whence is the term "tureen" derived?
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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.
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"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 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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"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 — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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The traditional potato soup was customarily served in a sterling silver soup tureen such as those found in the exhibition.
Jay Weston: Paris: Life & Luxury Exhibit at Getty Museum Displays Wonderful World of Excess Jay Weston 2011
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The traditional potato soup was customarily served in a sterling silver soup tureen such as those found in the exhibition.
Jay Weston: Paris: Life & Luxury Exhibit at Getty Museum Displays Wonderful World of Excess Jay Weston 2011
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They get emotional breakdowns, drug-running and terminal illnesses; we get the cast of Downton Abbey blushing over a footman buffing the wrong tureen.
With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses 2011
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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.
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The traditional potato soup was customarily served in a sterling silver soup tureen such as those found in the exhibition.
Jay Weston: Paris: Life & Luxury Exhibit at Getty Museum Displays Wonderful World of Excess Jay Weston 2011
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