Other forms: tureens
A tureen is a large deep dish with a lid, for serving soup. A soup tureen, ladle from the tureen, a silver tureen.
It belongs to a way of eating that has largely gone, where soup came to the table in one vessel and was served from it. The word is from French for an earthenware pot, the same root as terrine.
1nountureenA large deep dish with a lid, for serving soup.
“The waiter lifted the lid of the tureen, and steam rose from the soup.”
tureen is a dish.
French terrine is an earthenware pot, from terre, earth; terrine is the doublet.
Proto-Indo-European
*ters-
French
terrine
English, today
tureen
From earlier terrene (thus pronunciations with are spelling pronunciations), borrowed from French terrine. a doublet of terrine.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA