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nouvelle cuisine

nouvelle cuisine noun: a French approach to cookery, contrasted with "cuisine classique" (classical cuisine), that is typified by its lighter, more delicate dishes and emphasis on presentation.

Noun

nouvelle cuisine (usually uncountable, plural nouvelle cuisines or nouvelles cuisines)

  1. (usually) A French approach to cookery, contrasted with "cuisine classique" (classical cuisine), that is typified by its lighter, more delicate dishes and emphasis on presentation.
    • In case you wonder, no, there is no trace whatsoever of nouvelle cuisine influencing this establishment. It is as impervious to passing fashions as are the strictly protected eighteenth-century buildings which make up most of the Lange Voorhout.1988, Alan Davidson, “A Dutch Treat”, in A Kipper With My Tea: Selected Food Essays, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, part one (A Personal Miscellany), page 19

Forms of nouvelle cuisine

pluralnouvelle cuisines
pluralnouvelles cuisines

Origin of nouvelle cuisine

Unadapted borrowing from French nouvelle cuisine (“new cuisine”).

Questions about nouvelle cuisine

What does nouvelle cuisine mean?
Nouvelle cuisine means a French approach to cookery, contrasted with "cuisine classique" (classical cuisine), that is typified by its lighter, more delicate dishes and emphasis on presentation.
What part of speech is nouvelle cuisine?
Nouvelle cuisine is a noun.
What is the plural of nouvelle cuisine?
The plural of nouvelle cuisine is nouvelle cuisines.

Words near nouvelle cuisine in the dictionary

  1. nouveau réalisme
  2. nouveaus
  3. nouveaux
  4. nouveaux pauvres
  5. nouveaux riches
  6. nouvelle cuisine
  7. nouvelle cuisines
  8. nouvelle vague
  9. Nouvelle-Aquitaine
  10. nouvelles cuisines
  11. Nouvian

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