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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 434 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TART , a dish of baked pastry containing See also:

fruit, a fruit See also:pie; also a small open piece of baked pastry with jam placed upon it. The word was adapted from the O.Fr. lame; the older See also:form must have been torte, as is seen in the mod. Fr. tourte and the diminutive tortel or torteau; the origin is the See also:Lat. Jolla, See also:twisted (torquere, to twist), used of a cake in Med. Lat., the See also:paste or dough of cakes or tarts being rolled or twisted. The alteration of the vowel is also seen in Ital. tartera. In See also:English there is some confusion with " tart," See also:sharp, See also:acid, See also:bitter, which comes from O.E. teart, sharp, severe, properly " tearing," from teran, to See also:tear; cf.

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