cookroom en · NOUN
Etymology
From cook + room.
Meanings
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(India, historical) A kitchen or room for cookery.
[…] there is a cookroom and privy in the rear of the building, the latter being connected with the hospital by a covered passage.
1855, Pharoah and Co, A Gazetteer of Southern India, page 553:
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The galley or caboose of a ship.
[…] in all their Ships (for the most Part) the Cook-rooms are built in their Forecastles, contrary to that which hath been anciently used.
c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookrooms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |