Obs. Also 4 kewery. [a. OF. keuerie, queuerie, queurie (14th c.), cookery, kitchen, f. keu, queu, coeu:—L. coquus, cocus cook: see -ERY.] a. Cookery. (Also the ‘concoction’ of substances in alchemy.) b. Cooked food; a dish.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 405. They conne ete and be mury Wiþ oute grete kewery. [Caxton cury, Higden coquorum artificia].

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c. 1390[?].  (title), Form of Cury.

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a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 1063. Here es cury un-clene, carle, be my trowthe.

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c. 1460.  J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, 506. Cookes with þeire newe conceytes … Many new curies … þey are contryvynge & Fyndynge.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VIII. Prol. 95. Throw cury of the quentassens.

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  Cury2. rare. = L. curia.

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1886.  [see CURIATE].

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