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cookhouse

American  
[kook-hous] / ˈkʊkˌhaʊs /

noun

  • cookhouses
    plural
  1. a building or place for cooking, especially a camp kitchen.


cookhouse British  
/ ˈkʊkˌhaʊs /

noun

  1. a place for cooking, esp a camp kitchen

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of cookhouse

First recorded in 1785–95; cook 1 + house

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With its faded red-shingle siding, the Samoa Cookhouse, which opened in 1893, is the last surviving lumberjack camp-style cookhouse in the Western U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2022

A video of a captured Russian army cookhouse gives an unappetising glimpse of the meals served to troops.

From BBC Mar. 24, 2022

An 11-mile drive up a scenic valley brings you to the Ashcroft Adventure Lodge, from where you snowshoe, cross-country ski or take a horse-drawn sleigh the final 1.3 miles to the cookhouse.

From Washington Post Jan. 11, 2018

Etcheverry and his 18 or so employees met for lunch in a dining room at the ranch’s cookhouse.

From Washington Times May 7, 2016

In the evening, the cookhouse runs out of food.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

In Australia, Chinese takeaways date back to the 1850s, when Chinese cookhouses and greengrocers provided for gold miners in remote parts of the country.

From Salon May 30, 2023

But day schools were not intended for lodging purposes, and here again was displayed Major Martin's skill in the erection of cookhouses and more wash-tubs and other domestic essentials.

From The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. by John David Hills

The mess tents and cookhouses are about alike in all the arms of the service.

From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White

Into the cookhouses, whence cutlery had vanished, crowded old men in bowlers and bonneted old women, whose bony fingers clutched convulsively at plates of leavings.

From Tales of the Wilderness by Boris Pilniak

The village had been much shelled, first by Italian and then by Austrian guns, and there was not a house remaining undamaged, though several had been patched up as billets and cookhouses by British troops.

From With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement by Hugh Dalton, Baron Dalton

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