Cuisine meaning

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

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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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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A characteristic manner or style of preparing food.

Spanish cuisine.

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Food; fare.
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The kitchen.
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Style of cooking; manner of preparing food.
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The food prepared, as at a restaurant.
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Origin of cuisine

  • French from Old French from Vulgar Latin cocīna variant of Latin coquīna kitchen, cookery from coquere to cook pekw- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Borrowing from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”).
    From Wiktionary

Cuisine Sentence Examples

  • Supper was the usual savory cuisine and pleasant conversation.

  • They liked to indulge in fine cuisine.

  • For these reasons, every Hindu household - whether Brahman, Kshatriya or Sudra - that can afford to keep a paid cook generally entertains the services of a Brahman for the performance of its cuisine - the result being that in the larger towns the very name of Brahman has suffered a strange degradation of late, so as to mean only a cook "(Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya, Hindu Castes and Sects).

  • The owner prides herself on the exquisite cuisine, old-fashioned courtesy and personal attention given to all customers. 

  • If you were to judge Italian cuisine by the food that is served in Italian restaurants across America, you might think that the food of Italy consists mainly of pasta with different types of sauces and pizza with an assortment of toppings.

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