tourtière

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of traditional French-Canadian meat pie, usually made with pork. Canada,Quebec,countable,uncountable
    — Last December, I called my mother to get her recipe for tourtière, a beloved traditional French-Canadian dish. It would be the meaningful heart of a bundle of gifts I had lovingly gathered to honour a Métis elder I had recently met. To share this recipe for tourtière was to share a piece of my family’s story with this elder, to whom I owed a great debt of gratitude.

词形变化

tourtières plural tortiere alternative tourtiere alternative

词源

From Canadian French tourtière, from a cooking vessel of the same name, from French tourte (“meat pie”). There is a common false etymology that it derives from the alternative meaning tourte (“passenger pigeon”).
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