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tureen

[too-reen, tyoo-] / tʊˈrin, tyʊ- /


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A 10-foot canopy shaded guests, while the addition of a hot water tureen allowed people to make coffee, tea and instant cup noodles.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2023

They hit it off, talking about their shared love of French literature and comparing a noblewoman’s up-do to a soup tureen.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2021

The kitchen table was laid with homemade bread, butter, jam, a tureen of dried lamb tallow, and a haunch of fermented lamb.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018

My mother liked her tureen all right and displayed it proudly on the side table.

From Washington Post • May 7, 2018

The large round bowl in which soup was served wasn’t a soup bowl, it was a tureen.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou




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