‖ tourte1
(turt)
Also tourt.
[mod.F. tourte, now, a piece of pastry containing meat, fish, etc., eaten hot, a pie; dial. bread in the form of a disk, a round flat cake, also in transferred senses; in dial. F. torte, Sp. and It. torta:—late L. tōrta a cake of bread, of uncertain origin. Cf. also torta.]
(See quots.)
| 1706 Phillips (ed Kersey), Tourte, (in Cookery) a kind of Pastry-work bak'd in a Pan; a Pie. 1725 Bradley's Fam. Dict., Tourte or Pan-pie, in general a Pie bak'd in a Pan, of which there are several Sorts. Ibid., To make a Tourte of Veal Sweet-Breads. 1762 Char. in Ann. Reg. ii. 34 The pheasant tourt was a discovery he made in Spain. 1895 Funk's Stand. Dict., Tourte. |