cuisine
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From French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”), from Late Latin cocina, dissimilation of Latin coquina, from Latin coquo (“to cook”).
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cuisine (plural cuisines)
- a characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin
- French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking.
- The restaurant is noted for its excellent cuisine.
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- (characteristic style of preparing food): culinary art, kitchen
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characteristic style of preparing food
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[edit] French
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From Vulgar Latin cocīna, from Latin coquīna, based on coquō "I cook, prepare food" (cf. Catalan cuina, Galician cociña, Italian cucina, Portuguese cozinha, Spanish cocina, and ultimately English kitchen, Dutch keuken and German Küche).
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cuisine f. (plural cuisines)
