tollhouse
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
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
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
Chocolate chip cookies are not exactly new: they date back to colonial times, when they were known as tollhouse cookies.
From Time Magazine Archive
While Olive Asher remained at the tollhouse there was no chance for her in that quarter.
From The Captain's Toll-Gate by Stockton, Frank Richard
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