tollhouse
Americannoun
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tollhouses
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of tollhouse
First recorded in 1400–50, tollhouse is from the late Middle English word tolhowse. See toll 1, house
Example Sentences
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Plump with ricotta, Lidia's chocolate chip cookie is not the golden tollhouse cookie of your American dreams.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2021
He first had a tollhouse pie years ago on the Jersey Shore, loved it and then developed his own version.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2014
During World War II, millions of tollhouse cookies were shipped to servicemen overseas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ruth G. Wakefield, 73, creator of the tollhouse chocolate-chip cookie; of cancer; in Plymouth, Mass. In 1930 Wakefield and her husband opened an inn in an old tollhouse on the Boston-to-New Bedford road.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gate to the little front garden was locked, and there was no passing through the tollhouse.
From The Captain's Toll-Gate by Frank Richard Stockton
From here follow the canal northwest through the heart of the new Birmingham, turning right at the big canal intersection, past innumerable old locks and tollhouses.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2012
During the last days of April,1205 the clerks at the tollhouses note the entrance of "a frightful number of poorly clad men of sinister aspect."
From The French Revolution - Volume 1 by John Durand
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