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bakehouse

American  
[beyk-hous] / ˈbeɪkˌhaʊs /

noun

  • bakehouses
    plural
  1. a building or room to bake in; bakery.


bakehouse British  
/ ˈbeɪkˌhaʊs /

noun

  1. another word for bakery

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of bakehouse

1250–1300; Middle English bak ( e ) hous; see bake, house

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"For us it's been a very positive story," explains Louise Lateur, managing director of E5 bakehouse in London.

From BBC Jan. 13, 2023

After breakfast, owners David Bill and Faith Van De Putte gave a talk about Midnight’s Farm, including plans to more than double the size of Barn Owl’s 200-square-foot bakehouse.

From Seattle Times Nov. 9, 2017

Even as their nemesis prowled the nursery, the Horrible Incorrigibles whined, punched, dueled, and pirouetted all the way to the bakehouse.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

“The first basket of samples has arrived from the bakehouse this minute. What’s the verdict? Do we have a baker, or do we not?”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Simon grinned and grabbed one of the wooden baking paddles, which he proceeded to ride like a hobbyhorse ’round the bakehouse.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

There is an equally strong case for a public handling of bakehouses and the bread supply.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A standard price was put on wheat the Government wanted, which knocked the farmer rather hard and hundreds of employees were thrown out of the bakehouses.

From The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia by George A. (George Augustine) Taylor

Finally, guardhouses and bakehouses, already falling to ruins like the mole, and an establishment for condensing water, still kept in working order, are the principal and costly novelties of the southern shore.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Some of the shops were shut, there were guards before others, and before the bakehouses.

From The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman

It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bakehouses the pyramids.

From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville

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