释义 |
cuisine /kwɪˈziːn /noun [mass noun]1A style or method of cooking, especially as characteristic of a particular country, region, or establishment: much Venetian cuisine is based on seafood...- Eating authentic Chinese cuisine is a cultivated taste and one worth exploring and learning.
- A full menu of authentic Cuban cuisine is available in the restaurant's dining room.
- I feel robbed that I didn't eat authentic Thai cuisine until the age of 27.
Synonyms cooking, cookery, fare, food; French haute cuisine, cordon bleu, nouvelle cuisine 1.1Food cooked in a certain way: we spent the evening sampling the local cuisine...- To make them get along I would have to cook both their cuisines at the same time.
- Students cooked up a variety of cuisines - Chinese and Mughlai to Continental and the good old South Indian fare.
- World famous master chefs dish out exciting cuisines to satiate everybody's palette.
Origin Late 18th century: French, literally 'kitchen', from Latin coquina, from coquere 'to cook'. Rhymes Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean |