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terreen

terreen is the archaic form of tureen.

Meaning of tureen

Noun

tureen (plural tureens)

  1. A broad, deep serving dish used for serving soup or stew.
    • The tureens and stands are variously marked with the date letters for 1726 and 1728, with the charge and discharge marks for the fermier-générals Charles Condier (1722-1726) and Jacques Cortin (1726-1732) and with their weights.1983, Gillian Wilson, Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum, page 22

Forms of terreen

pluralterreens

Questions about terreen

What is terreen the archaic form of?
Terreen is the archaic form of tureen.

Words near terreen in the dictionary

  1. terre-vertes
  2. Terrebonne
  3. Terrebonne Parish
  4. Terrebonnes
  5. Terreel
  6. terreen
  7. terreens
  8. terreity
  9. Terrel
  10. Terrell
  11. Terrell County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: terreen (page history and authors); tureen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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