cuisine
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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; < French: literally, kitchen < Vulgar Latin *cocīna, for Latin coquīna; see kitchen
1475–85; < French: literally, kitchen < Vulgar Latin *cocīna, for Latin coquīna; see kitchen
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| 1. | a style or manner of cooking: French cuisine |
| 2. | the food prepared by a restaurant, household, etc |
| [C18: from French, literally: kitchen, from Late Latin coquīna, from Latin coquere to cook] | |
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Cuisine
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
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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Encyclopedia Britannica
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cuisine
the foods and methods of preparation traditional to a region or population. The major factors shaping a cuisine are climate, which in large measure determines the native raw materials that are available to the cook; economic conditions, which regulate trade in delicacies and imported foodstuffs; and religious or sumptuary laws, under which certain foods are required or proscribed.
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Example sentences
There are few better ways to experience local cuisine and culture than with a walking food tour.
It's a soupy, creamy street food that's recently entered the realm of haute cuisine.
Now insects may become the next food frontier for space cuisine.
Our room was simply decorated and the cuisine, while tasty, was not innovative.
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