charcuterie
/ʃɑːɹˈk(j)uːtəɹi//ʃɑɹˈkutəɹi/
charcuterie noun: the practice of cooking and preparing ready-to-eat meat products, especially pork. Also the ellipsis of charcuterie board.
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Noun
charcuterie (countable and uncountable, plural charcuteries)
- The practice of cooking and preparing ready-to-eat meat products, especially pork.
- Cured meat that is ready to be eaten, especially pork.
- A shop or part of a shop specialising in cured meat.
- It was not until after the waiter came with the bill that Scott decided that we have the hotel make us a picnic lunch. I tried to argue him out of this as I was sure we could get a bottle of Mâcon in Mâcon and we could buy something to make sandwiches in a charcuterie.1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 153
Also used as
charcuterie is also the ellipsis of charcuterie board.
Forms of charcuterie
| plural | charcuteries |
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Origin of charcuterie
Borrowed from French charcuterie.
Words formed from charcuterie
Questions about charcuterie
- What does charcuterie mean?
- Charcuterie means the practice of cooking and preparing ready-to-eat meat products, especially pork.
- What part of speech is charcuterie?
- Charcuterie is a noun.
- How do you pronounce charcuterie?
- Charcuterie is pronounced /ʃɑːɹˈk(j)uːtəɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of charcuterie?
- The plural of charcuterie is charcuteries.
Words near charcuterie in the dictionary
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