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bakehouse en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈbeɪkhaʊs/

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”).

Meanings

1. A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
   • And they haue deuised for that purpose to make vs beleue in other vayne thynges by his pardonnes, as to haue remission of sinnes for praiynge on hallowed beades, for drinkyng of the bakehouse bole, as a Channon of Waltam Abbey, once tolde me, that when soeuer they putte theyr loaues of breade into the ouen, as manye as drancke of the pardon bolle shoulde haue pardon for drinckynge of it. 1548, Hugh Latimer, A Notable Sermon of the Reverende Father Maister Hughe Latemer, London:
   • 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 […]
   • Jude, finding the general attention again centering on himself, went out to the bakehouse, where he ate the cake provided for his breakfast. 1895, Thomas Hardy, chapter 2, in Jude the Obscure:
   • Fresh bread and doughnuts are still baked in the brick ovens of the old bakehouse behind the village store. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 180, about Felmersham:
   • 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. 1793, Charles Dibdin, chapter 5, in The Younger Brother, volume 3, London:
2. A building principally containing ovens.
3. (UK, dialectal) Bakery.

Forms

Descendants

bacws · becos · becws

Relateds

bakery

Translations (19)

ka საცხობი (bakehouse) · fi leivintupa (bakehouse) · stq Bakhuus (bakehouse) · enm bakhous (bakehouse) · cy popty (bakehouse) · ang bæchūs (bakehouse) · sv bagarstuga (bakehouse) · la pistrīna (bakehouse) · ro brutărie (bakehouse) · ga bácús (bakehouse) · xsv vumpnade (bakehouse) · hy փուռ (bakehouse) · fr fournil (bakehouse) · lv ceptuve (bakehouse) · cy becws (bakehouse) · ru пека́рня (bakehouse) · gd taigh-fuine (bakehouse) · pl piekarnia (bakehouse) · ca fleca (bakehouse)