Meaning of tourtière | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of traditional French-Canadian meat pie, usually made with pork.
   Canada, Quebec, countable, uncountable
2. Alternative spelling of tourtière.
   Canada, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“What I wanted Anna to understand was that I was more from here than she was. At least half my people were from Cape Breton. Salt water did run in my veins. Okay, so it was mixed with a bit of tourtiere, but it was there.”

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