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cookery
English
Etymology
From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook +? -ery.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?k??i/
Noun
cookery (countable and uncountable, plural cookeries)
- The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
- Synonym: cooking
- Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.
- 1475, Kenelm Digby, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened, subtitle:
- together with excellent directions for cookery, as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c.
- (obsolete) A delicacy; a dainty.
- 1839, John Espy Lovell, "Fish out of water", Rhetorical Dialogues, page 335:
- I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of R. North to this entry?)
- 1839, John Espy Lovell, "Fish out of water", Rhetorical Dialogues, page 335:
- (obsolete) Cooking tools or apparatus.
Synonyms
- (art of preparing food): See culinary art
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nookery
English
Etymology
From nook +? -ery
Noun
nookery (plural nookeries)
- a secure and cozy spot
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