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

As the odour did not pass away, Sir Hampton sought his lady, who had gone to dress, and again made her shed tears by exclaiming against his mansion being made to smell like a cookshop.

From Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One by Fenn, George Manville

"Alas!" said my tutor, "I begin to regret your father's cookshop, where we ate such good morsels while explaining Quintilian."

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

Then his grandmother rose and went and told her brother-in-law, who was incensed against the eunuch and sending for him, said to him, "Why didst thou take my son into a cookshop?"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John

The little cookshop, with its feet, as it were, in the water, made a small hut nestling down beneath the shadow of the great house.

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

Scatterall, as requested, went across the Strand to order it at the cookshop, while Corkscrew and Charley prepared the tables.

From The Three Clerks by Trollope, Anthony