Definition of Tureen

1. Noun. Large deep serving dish with a cover; for serving soups and stews.

Generic synonyms: Serving Dish

Definition of Tureen

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

Definition of Tureen

1. Noun. A broad, deep serving dish used for serving soup or stew. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tureen

1. a large, deep bowl [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tureen

tureen (current term)
tureenful
tureenfuls
tureens
tureensful
turf
turf accountant
turf accountants
turf bank
turf out
turf toe
turf war
turf wars
turfdom
turfdoms

Literary usage of Tureen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"When in the tureen, add salt. Partridge Soup. Skin two old birds, and cut them into pieces, with three or four slices of ham, a stick of celery, ..."

2. The Connoisseur by Bonnell Thornton, George Colman, Mr Town, George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1902)
"He commenced the work with such pieces as the jug 6 and tureen 2, plate i., and lived to produce the O'Neale vases, and the specimens with Watteau figures. ..."

3. Pottery and Porcelain: A Guide to Collectors by Frederick Litchfield (1900)
"In 1774 Cookworthy retired from the firm, and Champion, with tureen Cover and Stand of Bristol Porcelain, green laurel festoons and gilding (Jermyn Street ..."

4. The Cook's Own Book: Being a Complete Culinary Encyclopedia... With Numerous by N. K. M. Lee (1832)
"It is common to boil a lamb's head and pluck with the soup, and send them to table in the tureen. The soup is then called Lamb's Stove; but with the peas it ..."

5. Posthumous Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1884)
"In fact his highness, during the year that I stayed Jn England, earned by drizzling a handsome silver soup-tureen, which he solemnly presented to his young ..."

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