[tahn-doo
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[-door-ee] . Indian Cookery. | a cylindrical clay oven, fired to a high heat by wood or charcoal, in which foods, esp. meats, are cooked and bread is baked. |
| tan·door (tän-dŏŏr') n. pl. tan·doors or tan·door·i (-dŏŏr'ē) A cylindrical oven made of clay, heated to a high heat over charcoal or wood, and used in India for baking bread and roasting meat. [Hindi and Urdu tandūr, from Persian, variant of tannūr, from Middle Persian, from Arabic, from Akkadian tinūru, oven.] |