kitch·en  (k ĭch ən)
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n.1. A room or an area equipped for preparing and cooking food. 2. A style of cooking; cuisine: a restaurant with a fine French kitchen. 3. A staff that prepares, cooks, and serves food.
[Middle English kichene, from Old English cycene, probably from Vulgar Latin *cocīna, from Late Latin coquīna, from feminine of Latin coquīnus, of cooking, from coquus, cook, from coquere, to cook; see pekw- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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