Coquinary
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Coquinary is an adjective meaning (rare) Synonym of culinary.
Meaning
(rare) Synonym of culinary.
Example Sentences
[…] Margery, as blythe as a primroſe, having deſcended to the kitchen in her holiday geers, was in a hurry about her coquinary manœuvres; […]
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; […]
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?
Synonyms for coquinary
Depending on context, synonyms include culinary.
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