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cookery

[kook-uh-ree]

noun

Chiefly British.

plural

cookeries 
  1. the art or practice of cooking.

  2. a place equipped for cooking.



cookery

/ ˈʊəɪ /

noun

  1. the art, study, or practice of cooking

  2. a place for cooking

  3. a cookhouse at a mining or lumber camp

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cookery1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English cokerie, kokery; cook 1, -ery
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Hussain is one of the best known contestants to have appeared on Bake Off, and one of the few to have gone on to front her own cookery programmes for a major TV network.

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The defending champion played a practice round with his mum on Sunday, then on Tuesday joked about trying to take out the competition with a cookery lesson.

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The rice cooker — which, of course, should never be limited to merely rice cookery — is a magical tool that has fully mastered the ins and outs of grains, liquids and cooking time.

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Renat who's 10 and is building up a social media presence with an online cookery show, describes drones that shoot bullets.

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Beckham is known for his previous attempts to break into modelling, photography and cookery.

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