bakehouse

== English == === 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”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbeɪkhaʊs/ === Noun === bakehouse (plural bakehouses) A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods. 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island, London: Review, Prologue, p. 3,[4] 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 […] A building principally containing ovens. (UK dialectal) Bakery. ==== Related terms ==== bakery ==== Descendants ==== → Welsh: becws, bacws, becos ==== Translations ====