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TUREEN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tureen mean?
• TUREEN (noun)
The noun TUREEN has 1 sense:
1. large deep serving dish with a cover; for serving soups and stews
Familiarity information: TUREEN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large deep serving dish with a cover; for serving soups and stews
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("tureen" is a kind of...):
serving dish (a dish used for serving food)
Context examples
And here we are, up to our necks in the tureen.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He opened a door as he spoke, and looking in we saw a score of well-dressed men, some of whose faces had become familiar to me during my short West End career, seated round a table upon which stood a steaming soup-tureen filled with punch.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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