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: a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served
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Rather than having servants deliver one course at a time, the long dining tables were set with piles of food in elaborate chaffing dishes, tureens and trays so that guests were encouraged to graze their way through the bounteous offerings.
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Gaile Robinson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
Try a single bulb in an old and intricately patterned gravy boat or teacup, or, for more impact, plant several bulbs together in a lidless soupier or tureen, covering the soil with a layer of green moss that can either be lifted from the garden or bought in bags from floristry suppliers.
—Paula Sutton, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2023
On a dining room wall, dell’Uva designed a small iron shelf to hold an antique soup tureen from Capodimonte, the historic Naples factory renowned for its 18th-century porcelain.
—Jackie Cooperman, Robb Report, 25 Mar. 2023
With Farshid laid up in hospital, Omid takes over his route, dodging flying shrapnel on his motorbike to distribute tureens of biryani cooked by a jolly local chef to the increasingly ragtag remaining residents of Abadan.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
Half of a massive fruit — also known as ash gourd and grown for the restaurant by a family member of one of the owners — arrives with pageantry in a silver tureen.
—Bill Addisonrestaurant Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
The seafood tower comes shortly thereafter, an arrangement of crab claws and oysters on a mountain of crushed ice, topped by a basin of dry ice, which drifts out from below a tureen of Dungeness crabmeat.
—Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2022
Did my girl just pour a tureen of something red and splotchy on her head?
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 15 July 2022
Servers wheeled in a large silver tureen filled with steaming-hot broth.
—New York Times, 28 Mar. 2022
Gaile Robinson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
Try a single bulb in an old and intricately patterned gravy boat or teacup, or, for more impact, plant several bulbs together in a lidless soupier or tureen, covering the soil with a layer of green moss that can either be lifted from the garden or bought in bags from floristry suppliers.
—Paula Sutton, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2023
On a dining room wall, dell’Uva designed a small iron shelf to hold an antique soup tureen from Capodimonte, the historic Naples factory renowned for its 18th-century porcelain.
—Jackie Cooperman, Robb Report, 25 Mar. 2023
With Farshid laid up in hospital, Omid takes over his route, dodging flying shrapnel on his motorbike to distribute tureens of biryani cooked by a jolly local chef to the increasingly ragtag remaining residents of Abadan.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
Half of a massive fruit — also known as ash gourd and grown for the restaurant by a family member of one of the owners — arrives with pageantry in a silver tureen.
—Bill Addisonrestaurant Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
The seafood tower comes shortly thereafter, an arrangement of crab claws and oysters on a mountain of crushed ice, topped by a basin of dry ice, which drifts out from below a tureen of Dungeness crabmeat.
—Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2022
Did my girl just pour a tureen of something red and splotchy on her head?
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 15 July 2022
Servers wheeled in a large silver tureen filled with steaming-hot broth.
—New York Times, 28 Mar. 2022
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tureen
noun
tu·reen
tə-ˈrēn 
tyu̇-
: a deep bowl from which food (as soup) is served
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