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coquinary

coquinary adjective: synonym of culinary.

Adjective

coquinary (comparative more coquinary, superlative most coquinary)

  1. (rare) Synonym of culinary.
    • […] Margery, as blythe as a primroſe, having deſcended to the kitchen in her holiday geers, was in a hurry about her coquinary manœuvres; […]1761, The Life and Opinions of Bertram Montfichet, New York, N.Y.; London: Garland Publishing, Inc., published 1974, →ISBN, page 95
    • Nor has the painter forgotten to represent the mormal, or gangrene, on his shin; a circumstance, as Mr. Tyrwhitt has observed, by which Jonson, in his Sad Shepherd, has also described a Cook. Of the coquinary skill, and the critical knowledge of London ale, by which this character is distinguished...1810, Henry J[ohn] Todd, Illustrations of the Lives and Writings of Gower and Chaucer. Collected from Authentick Documents […], London: […] F[rancis,] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, T. Payne, Cadell...
    Synonyms:
    culinary

Synonyms of coquinary

Forms of coquinary

comparativemore coquinary
superlativemost coquinary

Origin of coquinary

From Latin coquīnārius.

Questions about coquinary

What does coquinary mean?
Coquinary means synonym of culinary.
What part of speech is coquinary?
Coquinary is an adjective.

Words near coquinary in the dictionary

  1. coquillas
  2. coquille
  3. coquilles
  4. coquimbite
  5. coquina
  6. coquinary
  7. coquinas
  8. coquinite
  9. coquinoid
  10. coquinoidal
  11. coquis

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