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The definition of cuisine is a certain cooking style or quality of cooking, or food from a certain region or country.

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A restaurant with excellent food is an example of a restaurant with excellent cuisine.
Food that is considered to be "French food" is an example of French cuisine.

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noun

Archaic the kitchen
style of cooking; manner of preparing food
the food prepared, as at a restaurant

Origin: Fr < LL cocina, earlier coquina, kitchen < L coquere, to cook

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cui·sine

noun

A characteristic manner or style of preparing food: Spanish cuisine.
Food; fare.

Origin: French, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *cocīna, variant of Latin coquīna, kitchen, cookery, from coquere, to cook; see pek^w- in Indo-European roots.

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