chefdomn.
/ˈʃɛfdəm/, U.S. /ˈʃɛfdəm/ The fact, state, or position of being a chef.
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1897 Amer. Dainties p. iii All the recipes given are for simple, every-day dishes..none of them aspiring to the regions of ‘high-class’ cookery, or French ‘chefdom’.
1917 Bath Chron. 28 Apr. 3/2 Foreigners reach high positions in chefdom because abroad there is nothing derogatory about being a cook, and an educated young man has the chance of becoming an expert.
1985 Texas Monthly July 60 Robert Del Grande chose his chefdom at Café Annie over postdoctoral research in biochemistry.
2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 10 My second pre-epiphany in my long climb to chefdom also came during that first trip to France.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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