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bakecraft en · NOUN

Etymology

From bake + -craft.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The skills of a baker; the art of baking.
    • […] of design and engineering features that can be brought to fruition only after years of experience with the technical phases of bakecraft. 1936, American Independent Baker:
    • An apprentice or journeyman could not trade on his own account until he had become free and paid a setting-up fee, and a journeyman must serve the art of bakecraft for three years before he might set up. 1956, James William Francis Hill, Tudor and Stuart Lincoln, page 30:
    • "My mother and sisters have threadcraft enough," Gird said. "But a parrion of cooking they'd welcome, even more in herblore than bakecraft." 1996, Elizabeth Moon, The Legacy of Gird: