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bakehouse.

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

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Meaning & usage

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

  2. A building principally containing ovens.

  3. Bakery.

    UK · dialectal
Where this word comes from

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”).

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