batterie de cuisine
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of batterie de cuisine
C18: literally: battery of kitchen
Example Sentences
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The kitchen contains a batterie de cuisine that would flatter a cordon bleu chef.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a good stove-lamp, a frying-pan, a chafing-dish, and a boilerette, with a saucepan or two and a kettle, she has an all-sufficing batterie de cuisine.
From A Word to Women by Humphry, Mrs. C. E.
When the entire batterie de cuisine was arranged in open air, the Lama invited us, in his politeness, to go and repose in our tent for awhile.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis
His baggage included, therefore, camp-beds, table-linen, silver plate, a batterie de cuisine, and a French cook.
From Russia by Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir
You would have imagined they had been born scullions, they handled the /batterie de cuisine/ so naturally.
From Devereux — Volume 04 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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