What is "tureens"

Usage examples of "tureens".

That one was equally vast, and in its middle was a table the size of the Florilegium's pista—a ring of tables, actually, linen-clothed and crowded with sterling silver samovars, crystal decanters, stacks of gold-inlaid porcelain tableware, snowy serviettes, silver flatware, and salvers and tureens and bowls displaying what appeared to be every finest sort of viand that ever came from a kitchen.

There was a footman behind every chair, and a constant procession of other servants—commanded by a maggiordomo—bearing tureens of various soups, platters of many meats, bowls of pasta and vegetables, ice-filled buckets in which reposed bottles of wine, still and sparkling, white, rose and red.

While the oysters were being consumed, the waiters brought to the tables great tureens of hot turtle soup.

All the time the Negro was banging down the tureens and then the dinted silver and the thick, white china plates, he gawped at us with big, rolling eyes.

The owoc givers began regurtitating into the great tureens located at the center of the homeheart.

In the middle sat earthenware tureens of parsnips, potatoes, and Brussels sprouts, with between them a gigantic steaming pie, twenty inches across and already cut into ten slices.

Across from him his companion did not seem to have moved, but almost half the pie had vanished and the vegetable tureens were much diminished.

Moncrieff carried into the dining room the tureens or serving dishes containing whatever it was we were to eat that night, and my wife and I honoured the silence which had become conventional during the presentation of our evening meal.

Across the pavilion the serving girls hung up lamps with yellow and green shades, and brought new trays and tureens to the buffet table.

Wizards lined the buffet, lifting the big silver lids of the tureens and wincing at every clang.