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tureen.

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

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/təˈɹiːn/Received-Pronunciation/t͡ʃʊˈɹiːn/Received-Pronunciation/t͡ʃəˈɹiːn/Received-Pronunciation/təˈɹin/General-American
  1. A broad, deep serving dish used for serving soup or stew.

Where this word comes from

From earlier terrene (thus pronunciations with /tj/, /t͡ʃ/ are spelling pronunciations), borrowed from French terrine. Doublet of terrine.

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