Meanings
nountourte (plural tourtes)
plural tourtes
- cookingA kind of French pie.
Make a Godiveaux farce as for the tourte under that name; cut the fillet of a neck of mutton into thin slices, and a few onions in the same manner; put some of the Godiveaux in the bottom of the pie, then some of the mutton, and slices of onions upon it, […]
1812, B. Clermont, The Professed Cook, page 371
Origin
- Frenchtourte
- Englishtourte
Borrowed from French tourte.
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APA
tourte. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tourte
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“tourte.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tourte. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tourte,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tourte.
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