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cakeshop en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkeɪk.ʃɑp/ (US)
• /ˈkeɪk.ʃɒp/ (UK)
• kākʹshäp (US)

Etymology

From cake + shop.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of cake shop.
   alt of cake shop
   • …disquieted by the discovery that on the very spot where she expected to find a small familiar cakeshop, a large bookstore now stands instead. 2009, Dani Cavallaro, Anime and the Visual Novel: Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games, McFarland & Company,, →ISBN, page 87:
   • The girl and the young man’s first wife, accepting the male’s infidelity without scenes or recriminations, finally agree to start a cakeshop in another basement and leave the young man to his newest mistress. 1962, James Gindin, Postwar British Fiction: New Accents and Attitudes, University of California Press, page 75:
   • As he did not wish their last interview to be troubled by the influence of their ruined confessional they met in a little cakeshop near the Parkgate. 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “A Painful Case”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 136:

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