charcuterie
[shahr-koo-tuh-ree, shahr-koo-tuh-ree; French shar-kytuh-ree]
- a store where pork products, as hams, sausages, and pâtés are sold.
- the items sold in such a store.
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Origin of charcuterie
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Contemporary Examples
It serves small plates like cheese, charcuterie, and sandwiches, but most come here for the impressive wine selection.
I still pull from this book when making terrines, sausages, and other charcuterie.
I can't get enough of the excellent French charcuterie: terrines, pates, saucisson—oh my!
Historical Examples
He always brought a bottle of sauterne, a pat, or a mess of artichokes or some tempting bit of charcuterie.
Bayou FolkKate Chopin
In those days you bought them cooked at the charcuterie for the same price that you got them raw at the greengrocer's.
Paris VistasHelen Davenport Gibbons
charcuterie
- cooked cold meats
- a shop selling cooked cold meats
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Word Origin
French
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Word Origin and History for charcuterie
n.
1858, from French charcuterie, literally "pork-butcher's shop," from charcuter (16c.), from obsolete char (Modern French chair) cuite "cooked flesh," from chair "meat" (Old French char, from Latin carnem; see carnage) + cuit, past participle of cuire "to cook." Cf. French charcutier "pork butcher; meat roaster, seller of cooked (not raw) meat."
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