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cui⋅sine

   [kwi-zeen]
–noun
1. a style or quality of cooking; cookery: Italian cuisine; This restaurant has an excellent cuisine.
2. Archaic. the kitchen or culinary department of a house, hotel, etc.
Origin:
1475–85; < F: lit., kitchen < VL *cocīna, for L coquīna; see kitchen
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Language Translation for : Cuisine
Spanish: cocina, German: die Kochkunst, Japanese: 料理
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cui·sine     (kwĭ-zēn')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A characteristic manner or style of preparing food: Spanish cuisine.
  2. Food; fare.


[French, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *cocīna, variant of Latin coquīna, kitchen, cookery, from coquere, to cook; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.]

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cuisine 
1786, from Fr. cuisine, lit. "kitchen," from L.L. cocina, earlier coquina "kitchen," from L. coquere "to cook" (see cook (n.)).

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cuisine

noun
the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared 

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Cuisine

Cui`sine"\ (kw?`z?n"), n. [F., fr. L. coquina kitchen, fr. coquere to cook. See Kitchen.]

1. The kitchen or cooking department.

2. Manner or style of cooking.

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