cuisine
See also: cuisiné
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”), from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Doublet of kitchen.
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cuisine (countable and uncountable, plural cuisines)
- (countable, uncountable) A characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.
- French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking.
- The restaurant is noted for its excellent cuisine.
- (uncountable) Synonym of culinary art: The art of preparing food, generally.
- (countable, dated) A kitchen or cooking department.
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- (characteristic style of preparing food): culinary art, kitchen
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characteristic style of preparing food
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culinary art — see culinary art
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Etymology edit
From French cuisine, from Old French cuisine, from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Doublet of keuken.
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cuisine f (uncountable)
- cuisine; a characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin
- Synonym: keuken
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French cuisine, from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Cognate with English kitchen.
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Noun edit
cuisine f (plural cuisines)
- kitchen
- Brian est dans la cuisine
- Brian is in the kitchen.
- cuisine
- J’aime la cuisine française.
- I like French cooking.
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cuisine
- inflection of cuisiner:
Further reading edit
- “cuisine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.