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Definition of Mrs Beeton from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Mrs Beeton

 
/ˌmɪsɪz ˈbiːtn/
 
/ˌmɪsɪz ˈbiːtn/
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  1. Isabella Mary Mayson Beeton (1836-65) the British writer of the Book of Household Management (1861), a famous book on cooking and running a household, which gives much information about 19th-century life in the home
    • According to Mrs Beeton, we should cook it with cream.
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