See Also: tandoor(dictionary)
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tandoor (iou)



tandoor noun. Also (in sense 1 usu.) tandour; (earlier) tendoor & other vars. M17.
[Sense 1 from French tandour from Turkish tandr var. of Persian, Arab. tannur oven, furnace; sense 2 from Urdu, tandur, Persian tanur ult. from Arab. tannur. Cf. ATHANOR.]
A square table with a brazier under it, round which people sit for warmth in cold weather in Persia, Turkey, and adjacent countries. Now rare. M17.
A clay oven of a kind used orig. in northern India and Pakistan; a shop selling food cooked in such an oven. M19.