batterie de cuisine
Americannoun
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batteries de cuisine
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of batterie de cuisine
C18: literally: battery of kitchen
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The kitchen contains a batterie de cuisine that would flatter a cordon bleu chef.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cancut wielded the axe; I the match-box; Iglesias the batterie de cuisine.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
A little later in his career his method changes: he relies upon his batterie de cuisine as much as ever, but uses some art to conceal the employment of his apparatus.
From Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" by Edward Fordham Spence
It's a pity to spoil the romantically picturesque idea which many have of the French batterie de cuisine, but the before-mentioned fact is more often the case than not.
From The Automobilist Abroad by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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 Mrs. C. E. Humphry
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