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
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 Andrew F. Crosse
Finally a boy is called to carry the batterie de cuisine, while Omar brandishes a gigantic kettle which he has picked up a little bruised for four shillings.
From Letters from Egypt by Janet Ross
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
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 Evariste Regis Huc
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