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cookery

noun
/ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/

Etymology

From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook + -ery.

  1. inherited from cokerie

Definitions

  1. The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of…

    The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.

    • Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.
    • together with excellent directions for cookery, as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c.

  2. A delicacy

    A delicacy; a dainty.

    • I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.

  3. Cooking tools or apparatus.

    • She directed the servants, inspected both the cookery and arrangements of the table, held council with an old steward...
    • ...and would not be just dead weight, as on the trail it could conveniently be filled with the cookery and other odds and ends...
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A place where cooking is done.

    2. Obsolete form of kukri.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA