boucherie
boucherie noun: a social event at which people gather to butcher and make food from an animal, especially a pig.
Noun
boucherie (plural boucheries)
- A social event at which people gather to butcher and make food from an animal, especially a pig.
- It is not unusual for guests to contribute side dishes at a boucherie or cochon de lait, or to bring beer, or to donate money to help pay for a sack of crawfish. The participants in a boucherie work hard for hours at various tasks,[…]1992, C. Paige Gutierrez, Cajun Foodways, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 118
- She'd been chopping ribs at a boucherie, when they killed a whole pig with Lanier, who raised hogs on the other side of the river. A lightning strike startled her, and the ax took off part of that finger. Grady's finger.2012 March 13, Susan Straight, Take One Candle Light a Room: A Novel, Anchor, →ISBN, page 128
- A butchershop, especially one in a French-speaking area, and especially one which specializes in pork.
- Grace Damas had worked at a boucherie. The killer used a chef's saw, knew something about anatomy. Tanguay dissected animals. Maybe there was a link. I looked for the name of the boucherie but couldn't find it.2020 February 25, Kathy Reichs, Deja Dead: A Novel, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 461
Examples of boucherie in a sentence
- At a boucherie, animals are slaughtered and readied for sale—and for Cajuns, a day of boucherie is an art form and family affair.2020 April 14, Melissa M. Martin, Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou, Artisan, →ISBN:
- In Félines (a river, a waterfall, a church—altitude, 3,000 feet; population, 1,612), we bought charcuterie at a boucherie.2020 May 5, Bill Buford, Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking...
Forms of boucherie
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Origin of boucherie
From French boucherie (“butchershop”), and in American usage (for the event), from Cajun French boucherie.
Phrases with boucherie
Questions about boucherie
- What does boucherie mean?
- Boucherie means a social event at which people gather to butcher and make food from an animal, especially a pig.
- How do you use boucherie in a sentence?
- At a boucherie, animals are slaughtered and readied for sale—and for Cajuns, a day of boucherie is an art form and family affair.
- What part of speech is boucherie?
- Boucherie is a noun.
- What is the plural of boucherie?
- The plural of boucherie is boucheries.
Words near boucherie in the dictionary
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