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Meaning of coquinary | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Synonym of culinary.

rare

Examples

“[…] Margery, as blythe as a primroſe, having deſcended to the kitchen in her holiday geers, was in a hurry about her coquinary manœuvres; […]”
“Nor has the painter forgotten to represent the mormal, or gangrene, on his shin; a circumstance, as Mr. Tyrwhitt has observed, by which Jonson, in his Sad Shepherd, has also described a Cook. Of the coquinary skill, and the critical knowledge of London ale, by which this character is distinguished, some descriptive circumstances may be entertaining. […] Lumbard mustard is another coquinary and topographical article in the same volume.”
“If we provide ourselves with about a Selibra or half pound of the Cheese, entitulated Duplex Glocestrius, or Double Gloucester; and then go on to cut the intrinsic caseous Matter into tenuous Segments of Laminæ; and, positing such Segments within the coquinary commodity distinguished by Culinarians as the Furnus Bataviæ or Dutch Oven, submit the same to the Fire, until by the action of the Caloric they become mollified unto Semiliquidity: […]”
“Now, be it known to you, O reader, that these Raspberries are only 4d. a-pound, small-seeded and luscious, and be it also known to you as a lesson learned during pilgrimages in many lands that it is pleasant to taste of the peculiar coquinary compounds of those lands, so I committed my Raspberries to the discretion of the widow Falaise—and was I not rewarded thereby?”
“Having thus insured the proper preparation of the pudding, he left it to his cook, with instructions for it to be well boiled, which my fair readers who are versed in the coquinary art know to be most essential.”
“When the minister and his wife entered their new home, a great assembly of both parties gathered, and all the ladies struggled for preëminence in the delicious cates and viands they brought. And if truth of conflicting dogma was to be tested (as I fancy was intended,) by coquinary superiority, I fear there were many present who could not tell right from wrong; […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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