cookery
Americannoun
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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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They included Good Afternoon and Afternoon Plus, the latter of which featured among other things the first TV appearances by Dame Mary Berry, who was then cookery editor of Home and Freezer Digest.
From BBC ● May 22, 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
Deighton also authored a number of historical books about the Second World War and, as a cookery writer, helped to introduce French cuisine to the UK.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
"First we look at the ingredients -- the bouillon, the vegetables," said Flang Cupido, 63, a cookery teacher taking part as a judge for the fourth time this year.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
All those plans I had—photography courses and cookery classes—when it comes down to it, they feel a hit pointless, as if I’m playing at real life instead of actually living it.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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 Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
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 Clark, Lewis Gaylord
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 Simmons, Amelia
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 Church, Ella Rodman
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