cookhouse

[kook-hous]

noun

plural

cookhouses 

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

cookhouse

/ ˈkʊkˌhaʊs /

noun

1. a place for cooking, esp a camp kitchen

Word History and Origins

Origin of cookhouse¹

First recorded in 1785–95; cook ¹ + house

Example Sentences

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

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The bottles were lined up on the same shelves in the hospital; the pumpkins were heaped in the corner of the cookhouse where they belonged.

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

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The sidewalls of the cookhouse have been raised to allow for a draft, but it is divided down the center by a curtain.

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The other was once part of the separate cookhouse.

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