chef de cuisine

[ shef duhkwee-zeen ]

noun,plural chefs de cui·sine [shef duhkwee-zeen]. /ʃɛf də kwiˈzin/. French.

Origin of chef de cuisine

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Literally, “head of kitchen”

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How to use chef de cuisine in a sentence

  • As the young chef de cuisine of The Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton in Sydney, he quickly earned international acclaim.

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  • Jean François Bruel, executive chef at Daniel, and Eddy Leroux, chef de cuisine, in particular.

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  • Andy bid fair to be no mean chef-de-cuisine, if his experiments always resulted so favourably as in the present instance.

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  • I shall now go and see your kitchen, and pay a visit to your chef de cuisine.

  • At midnight, the soldiers and the chef de cuisine, who has had his kitchen in the court, departed.

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