1829, French, literally "high(-class) cooking;" see haught + cuisine. Usually in italics until 1960s.
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haught adj.
c. 1300, haut, "great, high;" mid-15c., "high in one's own estimation, haughty," from Old French haut (11c.) "main, principal; proud, noble, dignified; eminent; loud; grand," literally "high," from Latin altus "high," literally "grown tall," from PIE root *al- (2) "to grow, nourish;" with initial h- in French by influence of Frankish hoh "high." Spelling in English altered to -gh- 16c. by influence of caught, naught, etc., or of high, or perhaps by the belief that it was a Germanic word. Related: Haughtily.
cuisine n.
"manner or style of cooking," 1786, from French cuisine "style of cooking," originally "kitchen; cooking, cooked food" (12c.), from Late Latin cocina, earlier coquina "kitchen," from Latin coquere "to cook," from PIE root *pekw- "to cook, ripen."