cookshop

American  

[kook-shop] / ˈkʊkˌʃɒp /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of cookshop

First recorded in 1545–55; cook ¹ + shop

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Example Sentences

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cookshop

Then his grandmother rose and went and told her brother-in-law, who was incensed against the eunuch and sending for him, said to him, "Why didst thou take my son into a cookshop?"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne

That some time you'll come for the guv'ner to investigate a crime wot's been committed in a cookshop, sir—and then, wot ho!

From Cleek, the Master Detective by Thomas W. Hanshew

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

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

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

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