cookhouse
noun
a building or place for cooking, especially a camp kitchen.
cookhouses
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pluralof cookhouse.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
They flaunt and forage in the Lines, they inspect the ashpits and cookhouses, they wheel and manoeuvre on the parades, but Slyboots sat serene upon his poker.
From Last Words A Final Collection of Stories by Hermann Dudley Murphy
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
There were no fires, no cookhouses, only tents without floorboards.
From The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) by C. R. M. F. (Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser) Cruttwell
