ETYM French, from Latin coquina kitchen, from coquere to cook. Related to Kitchen.
(French) “kitchen”; cooking; feeding arrangements. cuisine minceur (French) “cooking for slimness”; health- and figure-conscious variant of nouvelle cuisine.
1. The kitchen.
2. Manner or art of cooking.
3. The food or meals resulting from careful preparation.
ETYM Old Eng. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, Latin coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, from coquinus pertaining to cooking, from coquere to cook. Related to Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine.
A room equipped for preparing meals.