bakehouse

[ beyk-hous ]

/ ˈbeɪkˌhaʊs /

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noun, plural bake·hous·es

[beyk-hou-ziz]. /ˈbeɪkˌhaʊ zɪz/.

a building or room to bake in; bakery.

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Origin of bakehouse

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

Words nearby bakehouse

bakeapple, baked Alaska, baked beans, baked meat, bakegoods, bakehouse, bake in, Bakelite, bakemeat, Bake-Off, baker

How to use bakehouse in a sentence

Here we went into their Bakehouse, and saw all the ovens at work, and good bread too, as ever I would desire to eat.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete|Samuel Pepys
A warm air wave, similar to that you expect on entering a bakehouse, met us just when we had passed the wooden partition.
Our Churches and Chapels|Atticus
On Sunday, the work in this particular bakehouse is comparatively nil.
Mystic London:|Charles Maurice Davies
I had it—by a visit to the bakehouse of my own baker, if possible, during the hours of work.
Mystic London:|Charles Maurice Davies

From the open pane of the bakehouse window peeped a girl of about seventeen, holding a white roll in her hand.
A Desperate Character and Other Stories|Ivan Turgenev

British Dictionary definitions for bakehouse

bakehouse

/ (ˈbeɪkˌhaʊs) /

noun

another word for bakery

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