bakehouses
- plural of bakehouse.
Example Sentences
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Some of the shops were shut, there were guards before others, and before the bakehouses.
From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
As soon as the news was received that Soult was advancing, Terence ordered sufficient bread to supply them for that time, from the bakehouses of Monterey.
From With Moore at Corunna by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Machine Bakeries.—Bread-baking, though one of the most important of human industries, was long carried out in a most primitive manner, and machinery is still practically unknown in the bulk of British bakehouses.
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
