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- noun Plural form of
cookery .
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Examples
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He's the guy who invents -- he invents everything from hairsprays to cover up bald spots to magic cookeries in the kitchen.
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My grandmother did not leave her room that evening, and we were told that she was ill; while it is scarcely necessary to add that Fred never again interfered with any of Venus 'cookeries.
A Grandmother's Recollections Ella Rodman Church
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Well, rejoice in your upholsteries and cookeries if so be they will make you
The Map of Life Conduct and Character William Edward Hartpole Lecky 1870
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He was fond of chopping wood, so he was very obliging about the oven, and what he liked best of all was helping his mother in certain evening cookeries of sweet-meats, by receipts from Mrs. Crabbe.
Friarswood Post Office Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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On the contrary, there was a manifest inclination to detect resemblances of taste and flavor to those of very many rare and delicate cookeries; but after awhile _there came a pause_.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 Various 1840
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Italy is famous as a country of one hundred towns, several churches, and numerous cookeries.
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In the United States, frozen out of other jobs, they became houseboys to oligarchs and ranchers - or else established cleaning services and cookeries at every stagecoach stop or gold camp.
LJWorld.com stories: News By Michael Sragow - The Baltimore Sun 2010
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Italy is famous as a country of one hundred towns, several churches, and numerous cookeries.
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There’s a boardwalk on the Cochin shore southern India, Where you can buy the freshly caught fish/crab/lobster/shrimp etc and then there are a variety of cookeries wooing you to cook food the way you want it.
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Never to be quiet; never to have a stretch of those long days and weeks of unbroken continuity dear to later life; ever to sit at strange tables and sample strange cookeries; to sleep under a different preacher every Sunday, and in a different bed every night; to wear all sorts of uniforms for all sorts of occasions, three or four times a day; to receive every manner of deputation, and try to show an interest in every manner of object -- who would reign on such terms as these, if there were any choice of not reigning?
London Films William Dean Howells 1878
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