cuisine

[ kwi-zeen ]
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noun
  1. a style or quality of cooking; cookery: Italian cuisine; This restaurant has an excellent cuisine.

  2. Archaic. the kitchen or culinary department of a house, hotel, etc.

Origin of cuisine

1
1475–85; <French: literally, kitchen <Vulgar Latin *cocīna, for Latin coquīna;see kitchen

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cuisine

/ (kwɪˈziːn) /


noun
  1. a style or manner of cooking: French cuisine

  2. the food prepared by a restaurant, household, etc

Origin of cuisine

1
C18: from French, literally: kitchen, from Late Latin coquīna, from Latin coquere to cook

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