terrine

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Borrowed from French terrine (“a clay dish; that which is cooked in the dish”). Doublet of tureen.

P.S.—I am sending you an assortment of frying-pans as a wedding present, and an enormous terrine of pâté de foie gras to remind you of me. — The Man in the Brown Suit, Agatha Christie
A sort of banquet which might have served for the marriage feast of Neptune and Amphitrite, and be commemorated by a constellation; and which ought to have been administered by the Nereids and the Naiads; terrines of turtle, pools of water souchée, flounders of every hue, and eels in every shape, cutlets of salmon, salmis of carp, ortolans represented by whitebait, and huge roasts carved out of the sturgeon. — Tancred; Or, The New Crusade, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli

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