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

At such times the street is lined with listeners, who enjoy a delight equal to that of gazing into a confectioner's window, or snuffing up the steams of a cookshop.

From Little Britain by Washington Irving

Now I should ha' thought that you'd have spent your money in the cookshop, which is so much more natural.

From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat

In order to avoid them, I took refuge in a cookshop, where tongues and sheep's heads were sold.

From The Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang

Moreover Orsino Saracinesca and John Nepomucene Spicca would not be in daily danger of poisoning in this vile cookshop.

From Don Orsino by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

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 Madox Ford

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