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Definition of: terrine
(te·rēn′) noun
1. An earthenware jar containing some delicacy for the table and sold with its contents: a terrine of preserved ginger.
2. A kind of ragout or stew. Also spelled terreen, terrene. [<F <LL terrineus made of earth <L terra earth. Doublet of TUREEN.]
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