boucherie

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boucherie

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From French boucherie (“butchershop”), and in American usage (for the event), from Cajun French boucherie.

noun boucheries

A social event at which people gather to butcher and make food from an animal, especially a pig. It is not unusual for guests to contribute side dishes at a boucherie or cochon de lait, or to bring beer, or to donate money to help pay for a sack of crawfish. The participants in a boucherie work hard for hours at various tasks,[…]
uncommon A butchershop, especially one in a French-speaking area, and especially one which specializes in pork. Grace Damas had worked at a boucherie. The killer used a chef's saw, knew something about anatomy. Tanguay dissected animals. Maybe there was a link. I looked for the name of the boucherie but couldn't find it.

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@misc{boucherie_2026,
  title = {boucherie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/boucherie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}