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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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At about the seventh week, M. d'Asterac gave me leave to go and see my parents at their cookshop.

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

There, over against the house of the Sieur Chapuys, who was the Emperor's ambassador to this Christian nation—over against that house there was a cookshop to which resorted the servants of the ambassador.

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

There was a chak-run cookshop down the street, a place I'd once known well, with an evil reputation and worse food, but it was quiet and stayed open all night.

From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

"Sir," he said after a while, "did you not speak at yonder cookshop of an elixir which dispenses with all kinds of food?"

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

When I came out of the cookshop, the night was black.

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

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