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Definition of Tandoor

1. Noun. A clay oven used in northern India and Pakistan.

Definition of Tandoor

1. Noun. A cylindrical clay oven used, in the cuisine of the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent, to make flat bread, or to cook meat. ¹

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Definition of Tandoor

1. a clay oven [n -DOORS or -DOORI]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tandoor

Literary usage of Tandoor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scripture manners and customs by Mary Fawler Maude (1862)
"GREEN EARS OF CORN.— PARCHED CORN.—" DOUGH."—CAKES BAKED ON THE COALS, on ON HOT STONES.-—CAKES BAKED IN A PAN OR FRYING-PAN. —THE OVEN OR tandoor. ..."

2. Researches of the Rev. E. Smith and Rev. H.G.O. Dwight in Armenia: Including by Eli Smith, Harrison Gray Otis Dwight (1833)
"The tandoor, heated once or at the most twice in twenty-four hours by a small quantity of fuel, keeps one spot continually warm for the relief of all numb ..."

3. Missionary Researches in Armenia: Including a Journey Through Asia Minor by Eli Smith, Harrison Gray Otis Dwight (1834)
"The tandoor, heated once, or at the most, twice in twenty-four hours, by a small quantity of fuel, keeps one spot continually warm, for the relief of all ..."

4. Ivan Vejeeghen, or, Life in Russia [tr. by G. Ross]. by Faddeĭ Bulgarin (1831)
"Their whole occupation consists in sitting, during summer, the whole day on a sofa, and in winter at a tandoor. This tandoor is a sort of low square table, ..."

5. Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures: Derived Principally from the Manners by George Bush (1865)
"The tandoor, heated once, or at the most twice, in twenty-four hours by a small quantity of fnel, keeps one spot continually warm for the relief of all numb ..."

6. A Residence at Constantinople: During a Period Including the Commencement by Robert Walsh (1836)
"... under a table called a tandoor, covered over with a cloth, under which people thrust their legs when they sit round it, and they frequently upset it. ..."

7. A Residence of Eight Years in Persia, Among the Nestorian Christians: With by Justin Perkins (1843)
"To do this the more effectually, it is converted into a tandoor, by laying a flat stone, or a large earthen cover made for the purpose, upon the top, ..."

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