Cookery
['kʊk(ə)rɪ]
Definition
(n.) The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.
(n.) A delicacy; a dainty.
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Examples
- But the cookery-book made Dora's head ache, and the figures made her cry. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice as much as nature requires. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And what due or proper thing is given by cookery, and to what? Plato. The Republic.
- The curate turned up his coat-cuffs, and applied himself to the cookery with vigour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Then you would not approve of Syracusan dinners, and the refinements of Sicilian cookery? Plato. The Republic.
- We had gone over that lame one, the weather, at least three times, and the dirty streets of Paris, the French cookery, &c. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Consequently, the principal use to which the cookery-book was devoted, was being put down in the corner for Jip to stand upon. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery-book. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I am reminded, now, of one of these complaints of the cookery made by a passenger. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But it was pleasant cookery too. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In the field of cookery such activity has been displayed that the average kitchen to-day is a veritable museum of modern inventions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Mr. Hall was no _bon vivant_--he was naturally an abstemious man, indifferent to luxury; but Boultby and Helstone both liked good cookery. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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