bakehouse

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold

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”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

bakery, bakeshop

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