batterie de cuisine

[ batuh-ree duh kwee-zeen ]

noun

, French.

, plural bat·te·ries de cui·sine [bat, uh, -ree d, uh, kwee-, zeen].

1. kitchen utensils.

batterie de cuisine

/ batri də kɥizin /

noun

1. cooking utensils collectively; pots and pans, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of batterie de cuisine¹

C18: literally: battery of kitchen

Example Sentences

This is a cool idea but it's not Julia Child's batterie de cuisine.

From New York Times

Attempting a somewhat feeble joke, he wrote to France:—“La batterie la plus effective était ma batterie de cuisine.”

From Project Gutenberg

For prolonged expeditions of a serious nature a more elaborate equipage is necessary; but upon such small ones as are made in the Alps it would be unnecessarily encumbering yourself to take a whole batterie de cuisine.1 Before passing on to speak of clothing, a word upon snow-blindness will not be out of place.

From Project Gutenberg

With a good stove-lamp, a frying-pan, a chafing-dish, and a boilerette, with a saucepan or two and a kettle, she has an all-sufficing batterie de cuisine.

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How can public virtue keep its ground against such a rush of the raw material, covered by such a "batterie de cuisine?"

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