tourte

Borrowed from French tourte.

tourte (plural tourtes)

1. (cooking) A kind of French pie.
   • 1812, B. Clermont, The Professed Cook, page 371:

     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, […]

• tourtre

• IPA^(key): /tuʁt/

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Ultimately from Latin turtur (“turtle, turtle dove, turtledove”). Compare tourterelle.

tourte f (plural tourtes)

1. (Quebec) passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius

   Synonyms: tourte voyageuse, colombe voyageuse, pigeon migrateur

2. (Louisiana) dove

• tourtereau (masculine diminutive)
• tourterelle (feminine diminutive)

Inherited from Latin turta. Thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”), which would have yielded *torte in French.

tourte f (plural tourtes)

1. meat pie.

   Synonyms: pâté à la viande, (Quebec) tourtière

2. Any kind of salted pie with vegetables, cheese etc, generally covered by undercrust (abaisse). Can be with fruits too.

• tarte
• tourtière
• tourte au fromage

• tordre

• “tourte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)

• tortue