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charcuteries

charcuteries is the plural of charcuterie.

Meaning of charcuterie

Noun

charcuterie (countable and uncountable, plural charcuteries)

  1. (uncountable) The practice of cooking and preparing ready-to-eat meat products, especially pork.
  2. (uncountable) Cured meat that is ready to be eaten, especially pork.
  3. (countable) 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

Questions about charcuteries

What is charcuteries the plural of?
Charcuteries is the plural of charcuterie.

Words near charcuteries in the dictionary

  1. Charcot-Marie-Tooth
  2. Charcotian
  3. charcuterie
  4. charcuterie board
  5. charcuterie platter
  6. charcuteries
  7. charcutier
  8. charcutiers
  9. charcutière sauce
  10. chard
  11. Chard Junction

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