CUISINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cuisine mean? 

• CUISINE (noun)
  The noun CUISINE has 1 sense:

1. the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared

  Familiarity information: CUISINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUISINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cuisine; culinary art

Hypernyms ("cuisine" is a kind of...):

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cuisine"):

dim sum (traditional Chinese cuisine; a variety of foods (including several kinds of steamed or fried dumplings) are served successively in small portions)

haute cuisine ((French) an elaborate and skillful manner of preparing food)

nouvelle cuisine (a school of French cooking that uses light sauces and tries to bring out the natural flavors of foods instead of making heavy use of butter and cream)

rechauffe (warmed leftovers)

gastronomy (a particular style of cookery (as of a region))

 Context examples 

Ah, mine Gott, you tink I talk of de cuisine.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know not what the prince's maitre-de-cuisine will say or think.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Her cuisine is a little limited, but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotch-woman. What have you here, Watson?”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)