Bakehouse

Quick meaning: Bakehouse is a noun meaning A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A building principally containing ovens.
2. (UK dialectal) Bakery.

Example Sentences

Fresh bread and doughnuts are still baked in the brick ovens of the old bakehouse behind the village store.

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

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.

2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island, London: Review, Prologue, p. 3, Graham helped Father in the shed. He looked after the fire under the copper of pig swill, took the pork pies to the bakehouse when needed and generally ran round doing everything Father asked […]

Word Forms

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