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

Example Sentences

When a hungry man sees food, or when, let us say, a hungry boy looks into a cookshop, he becomes aware of a watering of the mouth and a gnawing sensation at the stomach.

From Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use by Alpheus, A.

My father, Léonard Ménétrier, kept a cookshop at the sign of Queen Pédauque, who, as everyone knows, wag web-footed like the geese and ducks.

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

I look at the old cookshop where I used to flatten my nose against the glass and dream that I had the run of my teeth.

From The Truants by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

I put him back to where the constables came to search for me at the cookshop.

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

A thicker crowd, towards the middle of the street, poured in and out at the door of a cookshop.

From The Fallen Leaves by Collins, Wilkie