Dictionary

charcuterie en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (UK) audio
• /ʃɑːɹˌk(j)uːtəˈɹiː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio
• /ʃɑːɹˈk(j)uːtəɹi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• [ʃɑɹˈkuɾəɹi] (US)
• /ʃɑɹˈkutəɹi/ (US)

Etymology

Borrowed from French charcuterie.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The practice of cooking and preparing ready-to-eat meat products, especially pork.
2. (uncountable) Cured meat that is ready to be eaten, especially pork.
3. (countable) A shop or part of a shop specialising in cured meat.
   • It was not until after the waiter came with the bill that Scott decided that we have the hotel make us a picnic lunch. I tried to argue him out of this as I was sure we could get a bottle of Mâcon in Mâcon and we could buy something to make sandwiches in a charcuterie. 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 153:
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of charcuterie board.
   alt of charcuterie board

Forms

Deriveds

charcuterie platter · charcuterie board · seacuterie

Hypernyms

delicatessen

Translations (26)

sv chark (part of a shop specialising in cured meat) · tr şarküteri (part of a shop specialising in cured meat) · hu felvágottaspult (part of a shop specialising in cured meat) · cs uzenina (cured meat, ready to be eaten) · sv charkuteri (part of a shop specialising in cured meat) · fi leikkeleosasto (part of a shop specialising in cured meat) · af kouevleis (cured meat, ready to be eaten) · af charcuterie (part of a shop specialising in cured meat) · de Charcuterie (cured meat, ready to be eaten) · cs uzeniny (cured meat, ready to be eaten) · af vleisdelikatessewinkel (part of a shop specialising in cured meat) · sv charkiturivara (cured meat, ready to be eaten) · fi leikkeletiski (part of a shop specialising in cured meat) · de verzehrfertige Fleisch- und Wurstwaren (cured meat, ready to be eaten) · fi lihanjalostus (practice of cooking and preparing ready-to-eat meat products) · fi lihaleikkeleet (cured meat, ready to be eaten) · it salume (cured meat, ready to be eaten) · ro mezeluri (cured meat, ready to be eaten) · hu felvágott (cured meat, ready to be eaten) · pt charcutaria (part of a shop specialising in cured meat) · de feine Fleisch- und Wurstwaren (cured meat, ready to be eaten) · es charcutería (part of a shop specialising in cured meat) · pl wędlina (cured meat, ready to be eaten) · de Wurstdelikatessen (cured meat, ready to be eaten) · cs uzenářství (cured meat, ready to be eaten) · af charcuterie (cured meat, ready to be eaten)