cookery book
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- noun
- /ˈkʊkəri bʊk/
- UK
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libro de cocina
- Mary Randolph's The Virginia Housewife (1824), for example, which is mainly a cookery book, claims in its preface that
- write a cookery book
Examples
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You'll still find these in the OED, but you'll also find the history of individual words and of the language traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
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I can see I'm going to have a rather large list of cookery books on my wish list; I may even treat myself, why not?
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David: If you could do some of the housekeeping and perhaps study a cookery book...
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She'd rather save her two quid, ta very much, for her trousseau or a good cookery book.
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"Cookery books," as you call them, will likely move out of books and into sites like Epicurious and others (already, most of our recipes come from here).
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I found it in a small Australian paperback cookery book published in 1943 by the 'Truth' and 'Daily Mirror' newspapers and edited by the well-known Brisbane medico, Dr. Phyllis Cilento.
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This cookery book includes a variety of recipes from around the world.
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She found a great cookery book that has easy recipes for beginners.
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The cookery book provided clear instructions on how to prepare traditional dishes.
Synonyms
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A book that gives recipes and instructions to cook food
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a book that contains recipes and instructions for preparing food' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'cookery' (the practice of cooking) with 'book' (a bound set of pages). This noun–noun compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g. Spanish 'libro de cocina', French 'livre de cuisine'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Cookery book is a name for a cookery (cooking) book that cooks kept in the kitchen to write down and follow recipes. That's why it means 'a book of recipes and instructions for preparing food'.