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bakehouse

/ˈbeɪkhaʊs/

bakehouse noun: a building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.

Noun

bakehouse (plural bakehouses)

  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...1548, Hugh Latimer, A Notable Sermon of the Reverende Father Maister Hughe Latemer, London
    • This third scheme went to the relief of the poor at large, and indeed so did the fourth. One was a plan to sell them bread under the standard price, and the other meat. To carry the first into execution, a water-mill was built, and a bakehouse annexed to it.1793, Charles Dibdin, chapter 5, in The Younger Brother, volume 3, London
  2. A building principally containing ovens.
  3. (UK, dialectal) Bakery.

Examples of bakehouse in a sentence

  • Jude, finding the general attention again centering on himself, went out to the bakehouse, where he ate the cake provided for his breakfast.1895, Thomas Hardy, chapter 2, in Jude the Obscure:
  • Fresh bread and doughnuts are still baked in the brick ovens of the old bakehouse behind the village store.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 180, about Felmersham:

Forms of bakehouse

pluralbakehouses

Origin of bakehouse

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”).

Questions about bakehouse

What does bakehouse mean?
Bakehouse means a building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
How do you use bakehouse in a sentence?
Jude, finding the general attention again centering on himself, went out to the bakehouse, where he ate the cake provided for his breakfast.
What part of speech is bakehouse?
Bakehouse is a noun.
How do you pronounce bakehouse?
Bakehouse is pronounced /ˈbeɪkhaʊs/.
What is the plural of bakehouse?
The plural of bakehouse is bakehouses.

Words near bakehouse in the dictionary

  1. baked up
  2. baked-apple
  3. baked-in
  4. bakehead
  5. bakeheads
  6. bakehouse
  7. bakehouses
  8. Bakehthaa
  9. bakelite
  10. bakelites
  11. bakelization

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