kitchen

A room or area for preparing food.

We cook in the kitchen.

Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.

Cuisine; style of cooking.

I had been trained with the rigidity and discipline of the French kitchen, and now I was embracing American informality.

My palate passionately lies in the savory kitchen with its salty fats and infernal flavors of chilies and spices.

The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.

The percussion section of an orchestra.

For obvious reasons the percussion is normally arranged along the back of the platform, whether centrally or to one side, and sometimes also in two tiers, the heavy, noisier instruments behind, and the pitched, agile instruments such as vibraphone, marimba, etc. in front. An outstanding exception, however, exists in Roberto Gerhard's Epithalamion where the composer expressly desired that the all-important kitchen department be spread out in front of the strings and hence nearest the audience.

A utensil for roasting meat.

There are two modes of roasting: One is to use a tin kitchen before an open fire, and the other, and more common way, is to use a hot oven.

To do kitchen work; to prepare food.

A dress scarcely suited to woodland kitchening was defended by an apron borrowed from the maid.

"...May I ? " added the speaker, and forthwith took his answer from his master's smile ; "may I respectfully see what the old one has kitchened for you when I was not there ? "

To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.

I have found it so, for whenever I saw the meal and potatoes running low, I spared them, and kitchened them all I could, and never was run out of them till the new came in.

I "kitchened" my loaf, as they say in Scotland, with a pennyworth of butter, and occasionally with lettuce or a few radishes in their season ; and the beverage with which I regaled myself, after my meals, was a glass of water from the nearest pump.

To embellish; to dress up.

His Maker has not so endowed him as to lay him under the necessity of kitchening, so to speak, a slender share of talent, and, by rigid economy, make it go as far as possible.

But as in his novels and other work there is a 'kitchening' of the material, a tentativeness.

A surname.

Steve Kitchen was a fast-talking, enthusiastic entrepreneur who had developed a couple of successful Atari video games.

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