cookshop
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cookshop
Example Sentences
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A thicker crowd, towards the middle of the street, poured in and out at the door of a cookshop.
From The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins
Scatterall, as requested, went across the Strand to order it at the cookshop, while Corkscrew and Charley prepared the tables.
From The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope
On the right of the door was a large room, occupied as a cookshop.
From L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
In order to avoid them, I took refuge in a cookshop, where tongues and sheep's heads were sold.
From The Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang
Having become in his place the sworn bookseller of the Image of Saint Catherine, I took with me my father and mother, whose cookshop flourished no more.
From The Queen Pedauque by Jos. A. V. Stritzko
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