Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British A cookbook.
Wiktionary
- n. cook book
WordNet 3.0
- n. a book of recipes and cooking directions
Examples
“There were a few magazines lying about, but no books, except a cookery book and a French-English dictionary.”
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hernesheir British usage of times past to describe a book that recorded a cook's recipes, results, relevant notes, and information about cooking and baking.
"This old recipe book in which my great-great-grandmother wrote out her recipes in uneven sloping hand with many flourishes as she went about the housekeeping in her Warwickshire farmhouse has on its yellowed pages the dark rings of cups and basins that stood upon it."
- First sentence of the brief article Great-Great-Grandmother's Book by one E.F. Swain printed in the quarterly British farm journal The Countryman, Winter, 1956, p. 711. Sep 29, 2009