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bakehouse

noun
/ˈbeɪkhaʊs/

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”).

  1. inherited from *bakahūs✻ — “bakehouse”
  2. inherited from bæchūs — “bakery, bakehouse”
  3. inherited from bakhows

Definitions

  1. A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked…

    A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.

    • Jude, finding the general attention again centering on himself, went out to the bakehouse, where he ate the cake provided for his breakfast.

  2. A building principally containing ovens.

  3. Bakery.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA