cookshop

[ kook-shop ]

noun

1. a place where prepared food is sold or served; restaurant.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cookshop¹

First recorded in 1545–55; cook ¹ + shop

Example Sentences

I put him back to where the constables came to search for me at the cookshop.

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At about the seventh week, M. d'Asterac gave me leave to go and see my parents at their cookshop.

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M. Jacques, what you have now said smells odiously of the cookshop, of that old codger who is your father.

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A cookshop was his next point of call, where he feasted in extravagance and greasy luxury.

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I go and look at them frequently, much as a London Arab goes to have a smell at a cookshop.

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