charcuterie
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French charcuterie.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʃɑːɹˌk(j)uːtəˈɹiː/, /ʃɑːɹˈk(j)uːtəɹi/
- (US) IPA(key): /ʃɑɹˈkutəɹi/, [ʃɑɹˈkuɾəɹi]
Audio (US): (file) Audio (UK): (file)
Noun[edit]
charcuterie (countable and uncountable, plural charcuteries)
- (uncountable) The practice of cooking and preparing ready-to-eat meat products, especially pork.
- (uncountable) Cured meat that is ready to be eaten, especially pork.
- (countable) A shop or part of a shop specialising in cured meat.
- Hypernym: delicatessen
- 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 153:
- It was not until after the waiter came with the bill that Scott decided that we have the hotel make us a picnic lunch. I tried to argue him out of this as I was sure we could get a bottle of Mâcon in Mâcon and we could buy something to make sandwiches in a charcuterie.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
practice of cooking and preparing ready-to-eat meat products
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cured meat, ready to be eaten
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part of a shop specialising in cured meat
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compound of Old French char ("flesh", Modern French chair) + cuit (“cooked”) + -erie (suffix denoting a shop or vendor).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
charcuterie f (plural charcuteries)
- charcuterie (all senses)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: charcuterie
- → Swedish: charkuteri
- → Turkish: şarküteri
Further reading[edit]
- “charcuterie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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