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TUREEN , a deep dish or bowl, round orSee also: oval in shape, and with a cover, made to serve soup at table
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The word is a corruption of the more correct " terrine," an earthenware vessel (Med
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See also: Lat. terrineus, made of See also: earth, terra)
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The corruption is due to See also: miss spelling in early See also: cookery-books, and an absurd See also: story that the name arose from Marshal See also: Turenne once drinking his soup from his helmet was invented to account for it
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