cookery
noun
the art or practice of cooking.
cookeries
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pluralof cookery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The kitchen is one of the world's largest all-electric cookeries, has a refrigerated room to keep all scraps.
From Time Magazine Archive
My grandmother did not leave her room that evening, and we were told that she was ill; while it is scarcely necessary to add that Fred never again interfered with any of Venus' cookeries.
From A Grandmother's Recollections by Ella Rodman Church
On the contrary, there was a manifest inclination to detect resemblances of taste and flavor to those of very many rare and delicate cookeries; but after awhile there came a pause.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
All meat pies require a hotter and brisker oven than fruit pies, in good cookeries, all raisins should be stoned.—As people differ in their tastes, they may alter to their wishes.
From American Cookery The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables by Amelia Simmons
Well, rejoice in your upholsteries and cookeries if so be they will make you "happy."
From The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
