/ tænˈdʊəri; NAmE -ˈdʊri/ noun
[ U ] (often used as an adjective) a method of cooking meat on a long straight piece of metal (called a spit ) in a clay oven, originally used in S Asia :
tandoori chicken
a tandoori restaurant
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WORD ORIGIN
from Urdu and Persian tandūri , from tandūr , based on Arabic tannūr oven.