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pu⋅rée

[pyoo-rey, -ree, pyoor-ey] noun, verb -réed, -rée⋅ing.
–noun
1. a cooked food, esp. a vegetable or fruit, that has been put through a sieve, blender, or the like.
2. a soup made with ingredients that have been puréed.
–verb (used with object)
3. to make a purée of.
Also, pu⋅ree.


Origin:
1700–10; < F, n. use of fem. ptp. of purer to strain, lit., make pure; see pure
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pu·rée or pu·ree   (pyŏŏ-rā', pyŏŏr'ā)   
tr.v.   pu·réed or pu·reed, pu·rée·ing or pu·ree·ing, pu·rées or pu·rees
To rub through a strainer or process (food) in a blender.
n.  Food prepared by straining or blending.

[From French, purée, from Old French, from feminine past participle of purer, to strain, clean, from Latin pūrāre, to purify, from pūrus, clean; see peuə- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

puree  (n.)
1707, from Fr. purée "pea soup" (puree de pois, 1314), perhaps from pp. of purer "to strain, cleanse," from L. purare "purify," from purus (see pure). The verb is first attested 1934, from the noun.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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