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boucheries

boucheries is the plural of boucherie.

Meaning of boucherie

Noun

boucherie (plural boucheries)

  1. 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
  2. (uncommon) 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

Questions about boucheries

What is boucheries the plural of?
Boucheries is the plural of boucherie.

Words near boucheries in the dictionary

  1. bouche
  2. bouched
  3. Boucher
  4. boucherie
  5. Boucherie process
  6. boucheries
  7. Boucherize
  8. Boucherized
  9. Boucherizes
  10. Boucherizing
  11. Bouchers

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