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Terrine vs Terrene - What's the difference?

terrine | terrene |

As nouns the difference between terrine and terrene

is that terrine is a dish or pan, typically used for casseroles and made out of pottery while terrene is the Earth's surface; the earth; the ground.

As an adjective terrene is

pertaining to the earth; earthly, terrestrial, worldly as opposed to heavenly.

terrine

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A dish or pan, typically used for casseroles and made out of pottery.
  • A baked in such a dish and served cold.
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    terrene

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to the earth; earthly, terrestrial, worldly as opposed to heavenly.
  • * (rfdate) Sir Walter Raleigh:
  • God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene .
  • * (rfdate) Hickok:
  • Common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of our terrene experience.
  • * 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
  • Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ’s terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.
  • * 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
  • For the earth was both celestial and terrene , the down here and the up there.

    Noun

  • (poetic) The Earth's surface; the earth; the ground.
  • * Tenfold the length of this terrene . — Milton.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Walpole)

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