charcuterie

Borrowed from French charcuterie.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃɑːɹˌk(j)uːtəˈɹiː/, /ʃɑːɹˈk(j)uːtəɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃɑɹˈkutəɹi/, [ʃɑɹˈkuɾəɹi]

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charcuterie (countable and uncountable, plural charcuteries)

1. (uncountable) The practice of cooking and preparing ready-to-eat meat products, especially pork.
2. (uncountable) Cured meat that is ready to be eaten, especially pork.
3. (countable) A shop or part of a shop specialising in cured meat.

   Hypernym: delicatessen

   • 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 153:

     It was not until after the waiter came with the bill that Scott decided that we have the hotel make us a picnic lunch. I tried to argue him out of this as I was sure we could get a bottle of Mâcon in Mâcon and we could buy something to make sandwiches in a charcuterie.

• seacuterie

Compound of Old French char ("flesh", Modern French chair) + cuit (“cooked”) + -erie (suffix denoting a shop or vendor).

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁi/

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charcuterie f (plural charcuteries)

1. charcuterie (all senses)

• → English: charcuterie
• → Swedish: charkuteri
• → Turkish: şarküteri

• “charcuterie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• charcutière