What is "tureen"

Usage examples of "tureen".

Dante moved through steam from the coffee tureen to a bench, and sat across from Cilia, and she judged him.

Snowclaw asked, tossing the half-chewed turkey leg into the tureen of escarole soup.

The brave guildsman stamped on it until it was dead, then, in the absence of any nearby servants, managed to scoop it up using the tureen whilst several guests retired to be more or less ostentatiously sick.

Peter body said, as Ruby brought in a tureen of thick green pea soup with a knubbly, crusted brown surface into which the serving spoon had trouble breaking.

Looking closely she sees that it consists of ants: a monstrous file composed of thousands of tiny creatures that scurry to and from the kitchen dresser, crossing the entire kitchen and climbing up the walls, to reach the lard that fills the majolica soup tureen shaped like a duck.

While Kate carried away the tureen and brought out the baked potatoes and succotash, I took the steaks from the fire and forked them onto the platter.

Though the swooping blurs of brown and green contained whole forests of full-sized trees and countless boulders as big as houses, they looked, from where we stood, like cascades of dirty, gritty, lumpy tsampa porridge being poured down the sides of a giant tureen to puddle in its bottom, and the towering clouds of dust they raised on the way looked like the steam rising from that tsampa porridge.

Rearing behind those were bowls, tureens, urns, and complicated twiddly candlesticks, most of them enormous.

And I was still speculating as to what tureen of soup she was planning to land the sainted Pinker in and hoping that he would have enough sense to stay out of it, when Jeeves drove up in the car, a welcome sight.

Her hands trembled as she picked up the tureen from the table and went swiftly through the bacchante room into the kitchen.

The tureen is almost brimfull of sudsy liquid, a sea sponge bobbing around in it like a peeled potato.

Then a tureen of albondigas soup, and afterward tortillas, tacos, a decent turkey mole.

Gillian, Augusta, Barbara, and Zerrin bore steaming platters of oatcakes and bannocks and tureens of beef and vegetable stew into the stony silence that filled the hall.

And in an hour, a stew of tomatoes, hard chorizo, onions and potatoes was steaming in a blackened tureen.

Merchandise lay in heaps, haystacks, mountains: brocades, lounge-chairs, carriage-wheels, epergnes and chandeliers, tureens, mattresses, iron lawn-dogs and Parian birdbaths, billiard-tables and liquor-cabinets, bedsteads and stair-newels, rolled rugs and marble mantelpieces .