bakehouse
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bakehouse
- /ˈbeɪkhaʊs/
Where it comes from
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”).
noun bakehouses
- 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 t
- A building principally containing ovens.
- Bakery.
Translations
Talk about this word "bakehouse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bakehouse. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. bakehouse. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/bakehouse "bakehouse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/bakehouse.Cite this
@misc{bakehouse_2026,
title = {bakehouse},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bakehouse},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
