tureen

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large, deep, usually covered serving dish for soup, stew, or similar food

   The steaming tureen was carried carefully to the center of the table.

Simplified etymology

Tureen arose in the early 18th century when the cooking-pot sense of terrine began to be spelled tureen. Terrine came from a French word for a large earthenware pot and ultimately from Latin terra “earth.”

From earlier English terrene, borrowed from French terrine, 'earthenware vessel,' from terre, 'earth,' ultimately Latin terra. Tureen and terrine are therefore doublets, although tureen developed the specific sense of a large covered serving dish.

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