Cookroom

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A kitchen or room for cookery. India, historical

    "[…] there is a cookroom and privy in the rear of the building, the latter being connected with the hospital by a covered passage."

  2. 2
    The galley or caboose of a ship.

    "[…] in all their Ships (for the most Part) the Cook-rooms are built in their Forecastles, contrary to that which hath been anciently used."

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bakerycaboosecookerycuisinegalleykitchen

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"[…] there is a cookroom and privy in the rear of the building, the latter being connected with the hospital by a covered passage."

Etymology

From cook + room.

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