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		Definition of cutlery in English: cutlerynoun ˈkʌtləriˈkətləri mass noun1Knives, forks, and spoons used for eating or serving food.  Example sentencesExamples -  It's like being at an all-you-can eat buffet and not having any serving cutlery.
 -  It is in the spoons and cutlery section, however, the book will in many ways prove most useful to collectors, dealers and curators.
 -  Everything - the food, the cutlery, the carpet on her floor, the view from her window - is safe and familiar.
 -  Don't even imagine spilling a fleck of gravy on it, and it seems a shame to sully that highly polished cutlery with messy old food.
 -  The cupboard above the sink is not a cupboard - it's rows of drying racks for your plates, glasses, cutlery, pots and pans.
 -  The customers will be served Indian and Mughlai food in silver cutlery, which no other restaurant can boast of.
 -  You know, that wacky ritual we do every day involving food and cutlery?
 -  If she used the wrong cutlery for the wrong food, she had to demand a new fork/spoon for the occasion.
 -  Sailors were assigned to messes, each of around ten to twenty-five men, and equipped with a stowable table, cutlery, plates and a bread bin.
 -  Natty got her plates and cutlery and the paintings and all the things that she said she couldn't do without…
 -  Harel heard her sigh and looked at her poking her food on the fine china plate with the silver cutlery.
 -  They were at the same table, with the same food and cutlery.
 -  Iris was prevented from answering immediately because as soon as she retrieved her cutlery she forked some pancake into her mouth.
 -  One of the girls that was putting down the cutlery was putting the spoons next to the forks… on the left side of the plate.
 -  The fish were sent out with heated plates and a new set of cutlery: a knife and three-pronged fork to replace the soup spoons.
 -  Danny is pushing his food around the plate with his cutlery glumly.
 -  I can just see him sitting down to his tea and not being able to pick up his cutlery without twitching his knife and fork backwards and forwards in a rowing motion.
 -  Dishes and cutlery were scattered on kitchen tables, unmade beds gaped, just as their occupants had abandoned them.
 -  Grandma brought a toaster, some plates, mugs, cutlery and food yesterday.
 -  Out would come the silver cutlery and the special plates with the gold decoration.
 
  Synonyms silverware, plate, silver plate - 1.1North American  Cutting utensils, especially knives for cutting food.
 Example sentencesExamples -  She had already been into town that day to buy new cutlery and kitchen utensils.
 -  Not for nothing is David Mellor one of the leading designers in this country who has consistently turned out beautiful cutlery and utensils.
 -  I arrange some serviettes on the table, along with some cutlery and utensils.
 -  As the literature says, you need to use a cutting board to protect your cutlery, not the granite.
 
  
 
 Origin   Middle English: from Old French coutellerie, from coutelier (see cutler).    Definition of cutlery in US English: cutlerynounˈkətləriˈkətlərē mass noun1Knives, forks, and spoons used for eating or serving food.  Example sentencesExamples -  They were at the same table, with the same food and cutlery.
 -  Don't even imagine spilling a fleck of gravy on it, and it seems a shame to sully that highly polished cutlery with messy old food.
 -  You know, that wacky ritual we do every day involving food and cutlery?
 -  Iris was prevented from answering immediately because as soon as she retrieved her cutlery she forked some pancake into her mouth.
 -  Dishes and cutlery were scattered on kitchen tables, unmade beds gaped, just as their occupants had abandoned them.
 -  Out would come the silver cutlery and the special plates with the gold decoration.
 -  Sailors were assigned to messes, each of around ten to twenty-five men, and equipped with a stowable table, cutlery, plates and a bread bin.
 -  Natty got her plates and cutlery and the paintings and all the things that she said she couldn't do without…
 -  Everything - the food, the cutlery, the carpet on her floor, the view from her window - is safe and familiar.
 -  The fish were sent out with heated plates and a new set of cutlery: a knife and three-pronged fork to replace the soup spoons.
 -  I can just see him sitting down to his tea and not being able to pick up his cutlery without twitching his knife and fork backwards and forwards in a rowing motion.
 -  The customers will be served Indian and Mughlai food in silver cutlery, which no other restaurant can boast of.
 -  If she used the wrong cutlery for the wrong food, she had to demand a new fork/spoon for the occasion.
 -  The cupboard above the sink is not a cupboard - it's rows of drying racks for your plates, glasses, cutlery, pots and pans.
 -  One of the girls that was putting down the cutlery was putting the spoons next to the forks… on the left side of the plate.
 -  It's like being at an all-you-can eat buffet and not having any serving cutlery.
 -  Danny is pushing his food around the plate with his cutlery glumly.
 -  It is in the spoons and cutlery section, however, the book will in many ways prove most useful to collectors, dealers and curators.
 -  Harel heard her sigh and looked at her poking her food on the fine china plate with the silver cutlery.
 -  Grandma brought a toaster, some plates, mugs, cutlery and food yesterday.
 
  Synonyms silverware, plate, silver plate - 1.1North American  Cutting utensils, especially knives for cutting food.
 Example sentencesExamples -  I arrange some serviettes on the table, along with some cutlery and utensils.
 -  Not for nothing is David Mellor one of the leading designers in this country who has consistently turned out beautiful cutlery and utensils.
 -  As the literature says, you need to use a cutting board to protect your cutlery, not the granite.
 -  She had already been into town that day to buy new cutlery and kitchen utensils.
 
  
 
 Origin   Middle English: from Old French coutellerie, from coutelier (see cutler).     |