cookery
Americannoun
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cookeries
plural
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the art or practice of cooking.
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a place equipped for cooking.
noun
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the art, study, or practice of cooking
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a place for cooking
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a cookhouse at a mining or lumber camp
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cookery
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English cokerie, kokery; see origin at cook 1, -ery
Example Sentences
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The festival is a not-for-profit event, hosting entertainment, crafts, food and cookery demos, with any money made being donated to charities, with children's cancer charity Abby's Heroes the main beneficiary.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
He once cautioned that “Mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice as much as nature requires.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Born in Kibblesworth, Gateshead, King found fame as one half of the TV duo, appearing with Myers on the BBC cookery series for many years.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
Plant-based cookery school Joyfull Greens is running the monthly sessions on Wednesday mornings at the Denningberg Centre, Waverley Borough Council said.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
After four days of Mother’s drawing room cookery, with only infrequent trips to the dining car, what we wanted most was something good to eat; a real home-cooked meal.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
The kitchen is one of the world's largest all-electric cookeries, has a refrigerated room to keep all scraps.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
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