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Bakehouse definition

A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
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A building principally containing ovens.
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(UK dialectal) Bakery.
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Noun

Singular:
bakehouse
Plural:
bakehouses

Origin of bakehouse

  • From Middle English bakhous, bachous, from Old English bæchūs (“bakery, bakehouse”), equivalent to bake +‎ house. Cognate with Scots bake-hous (“bakehouse, bakery”), Low German backhus (“bakehouse”).

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Bakehouse Sentence Examples

  • It should comprise a mill, a bakehouse, stables and cow-houses, together with accommodation for carrying on all necessary mechanical arts within the walls, so as to obviate the necessity of the monks going outside its limits.

  • The kitchen, buttery and offices are reached by a passage from the west end of the refectory, and are connected with the bakehouse and brewhouse, which are placed still farther away.

  • This is separated from the main buildings of the monastery, and is connected by a long passage with a building containing the bakehouse and brewhouse (M), and the sleeping-rooms of the servants.

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