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cookshop

American  
[kook-shop] / ˈkʊkˌʃɒp /

noun

  1. a place where prepared food is sold or served; restaurant.


Etymology

Origin of cookshop

First recorded in 1545–55; cook 1 + shop

Example Sentences

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Clever folks like Jean Blaise, who made big profits amid the general wretchedness, went to the cookshop where they showed their astuteness by stuffing themselves to repletion.

From The Gods are Athirst by Emilie Jackson

The little cookshop, with its feet, as it were, in the water, made a small hut nestling down beneath the shadow of the great house.

From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford Madox Ford

I saw it very distinctly in passing along the street before this cookshop.

From The Queen Pedauque by Jos. A. V. Stritzko

You and I will go out and have a bit o’ something at the cookshop.

From The Story of Antony Grace by George Manville Fenn

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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