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Bakery

//ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold. countable
  2. 2
    a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold wordnet
  3. 3
    The trade of a baker. uncountable
  4. 4
    Baked goods. US, uncountable

    "Fresh bakery!"

  5. 5
    A large pair of buttocks. Internet, countable

Etymology

From bake + -ery (“place of”). Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally "place for making bread"; as "shop where baked goods are sold", it was believed by British travelers by 1832 to be an American-invented term.

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