cookery
/ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.12 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned."
- "together with excellent directions for cookery, as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c."
- "I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale."
- "She directed the servants, inspected both the cookery and arrangements of the table, held council with an old steward..."
- "...and would not be just dead weight, as on the trail it could conveniently be filled with the cookery and other odds and ends..."
- "Mr. Weller produced upon the little dining-table, a roast leg of mutton and an enormous meat-pie, with sundry dishes of vegetables, and pots of porter, which stood upon the chairs or the sofa bedstead, or where they could, everybody felt disposed to do justice to the meal, notwithstanding that the meat had been purchased, and dressed, and the pie made, and baked, at the prison cookery hard by."