Definitions for tureen

tureen tu·reen

Spelling: [too-reen, tyoo-]
IPA: /tʊˈrin, tyʊ-/

Tureen is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in tureen (eenrtu).

Definitions for tureen

noun

  1. a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods.

Origin of tureen

1700-10; earlier terrene French terrine earthenware dish, Middle French, feminine of terrin of the earth, earthen Vulgar Latin *terrīnus, equivalent to Latin terr(a) earth + -īnus Examples for tureen

When done, wash the pork clean in hot water, send it up in a dish, or cut into small pieces and put with the soup into the tureen.

Boil it slowly a few minutes longer, and then put it into your tureen.

Let it get another slow boil, and then put it into the tureen.

Warm two ounces of vermicelli and put into it; boil it ten minutes, and pour it into a tureen, with the crust of a French roll.

Pour a little gravy round the hare, and serve the remainder in a tureen.

Lay in the bottom of the tureen some slices of bread without the crust.

When done, drain it in a strainer, put it in the tureen, and pour the soup on to it.

Pour a little gravy round the goose, and serve the rest in a tureen.

Strain again into a tureen, and serve with sippets of toast.

Pour a little gravy round the duck, and serve the rest in a tureen.

Word Value for tureen
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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