| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| charcuterie |
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| SYLLABICATION: | char·cu·ter·ie |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  shär-k  t -r  , -kt-r |
| NOUN: | 1. Sausages, ham, pâtés, and other cooked or processed meat foods. 2. A delicatessen specializing in such foods. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from chaircuicterie : chair, meat (from Latin car , flesh; see carnage) + cuict, cuit, cooked (from Latin coctus, past participle of coquere; see cook).
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