batterie de cuisine
Americannoun
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
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
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 Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
You would have imagined they had been born scullions, they handled the batterie de cuisine so naturally.
From Devereux — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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.
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