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countable and uncountable, plural charcuteries
(uncountable) The practice of cooking and preparing ready-to-eat meat products, especially pork. examples
(uncountable) Cured meat that is ready to be eaten, especially pork. examples
(countable) A shop or part of a shop specialising in cured meat. quotations examples
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, page 153