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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

“What else would a baker be doing in a bakehouse? Now, out of my way—I’ve business of my own to attend to. This way now, my lovelies. What a good run you had!”

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

Mrs. Clarke fretted and paced, but within the hour a thin plume of smoke rose from the bakehouse chimney.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Moreover, some of these bakehouses produce bread which can hardly be improved on.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

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 Melville, Herman

This was so clear that, though noon was barely past, shopkeepers had closed their shops and bakers their bakehouses; and a calm, more ominous than the storm that had preceded it, brooded over the town.

From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John

Here we were told were baked every day a hundred thousand loaves of bread; and I saw with my own eyes a list of a hundred and thirty-eight bakehouses.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.

The proper place for the pigeon-house is the poultry-yard; but it does very well near dwellings, stables, brewhouses, bakehouses, or such offices.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

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