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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.
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Origin:
1475–85; < F: lit., kitchen < VL *cocīna, for L coquīna; see kitchen
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cui·sine   (kwĭ-zēn')   
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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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.)).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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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