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batterie de cuisine

American  
[batuh-ree duh kwee-zeen] / batə ri də kwiˈzin /

noun

French.
batteries de cuisine plural
  1. kitchen utensils.


batterie de cuisine British  
/ batri də kɥizin /

noun

  1. cooking utensils collectively; pots and pans, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

We deposited our batterie de cuisine, arranged our plaids, and then proceeded to make a fire with a great lot of dried sticks and logs of wood.

From Round About the Carpathians by Crosse, Andrew F.

How can public virtue keep its ground against such a rush of the raw material, covered by such a "batterie de cuisine?"

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

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

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

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