Bakehouse
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
"And they haue deuised for that purpose to make vs beleue in other vayne thynges by his pardonnes, as to haue remission of sinnes for praiynge on hallowed beades, for drinkyng of the bakehouse bole, as a Channon of Waltam Abbey, once tolde me, that when soeuer they putte theyr loaues of breade into the ouen, as manye as drancke of the pardon bolle shoulde haue pardon for drinckynge of it."
- 2 a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold wordnet
- 3 A building principally containing ovens.
- 4 Bakery. UK, dialectal
Example
More examples"In Quezon City, at the end of a road lined with coconut trees was Merced Bakehouse that was full of Filipino baked goodies."
Etymology
From Middle English bakhows, bakhous, bachous, from Old English bæchūs (“bakery, bakehouse”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakahūs (“bakehouse”), equivalent to bake + house. Cognate with Scots bake-hous (“bakehouse, bakery”), Saterland Frisian Bakhuus (“bakehouse”), West Frisian bakkhûs (“bakehouse”), Dutch bakhuis (“bakehouse”), German Low German Backhuus (“bakehouse”), German Backhaus (“bakehouse, bakery”).
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