Chefdom

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Collectively, all chefs. uncountable
  2. 2
    The state of being a chef. uncountable

    "Still they keep coming, perhaps spurred on by the celebrity status that chefdom has achieved in the past decade."

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"Still they keep coming, perhaps spurred on by the celebrity status that chefdom has achieved in the past decade."

Etymology

From chef + -dom. Piecewise doublet of chiefdom.

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