cake housen.
/ˈkeɪk haʊs/, U.S. /ˈkeɪk ˌhaʊs/ 1. A shop or other premises where cakes are served or sold.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling provisions > baked goods or pastry
baker1548
pie house1589
baker's shop1593
bakery1598
cake house1641
pastry shop1656
bakehouse1714
bread shop1773
bakeshop1789
confectionery shop1801
confectionery1803
patisserie1824
cakery1841
bun-shop1889
pasticceria1921
konditorei1935
1641 Discov. Roberies sig. A3v For nigh the Cake-house towards Islington, it being a dark night, fourteen troopers met a Coach.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 7 Apr. (1972) VII. 93 Thence took them to the cake-house, and there called in the coach for cakes, and drank.
1779 V. Knox Ess. II. iv. 39 The cake-house at Hoxton.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xvi. 263 On the other side of the lake..is a..cake-house.
1912 A. Kortrecht Dixie Rose in Bloom vi. 113 I had it..in the cake-house! I left it on the cake-house counter.
2009 Proc. & Addr. Amer. Philos. Assoc. 82 467 Anna's Cake House..Bakery, Dessert/Ice Cream.
2. A building where cakes of a substance such as livestock food, indigo, gunpowder, etc., are stored. Cf. cake n. 4b, cake n. 6a.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > other spec.
peltry?c1475
apple loft1569
root cellar1767
cake house1789
bottle store1829
nitre-tank1877
blood bank1936
eye bank1938
tissue-bank1968
1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. xxxi. 254 At one end of the building is a cake-house, at the other, the rick-yard; with a door at each end of the gangway to receive the hay and the cake.
1878 J. Inglis Sport & Work iv. 34 The cake-house boys run to and fro between the cutting-table and the cake-house with batches of cakes [of indigo].
1909 W. D. Ennis Linseed Oil & other Seed Oils xii. 164 The trimming at this mill..was originally done by automatic trimmers in the press room, from which the cake was trucked to automatic packers in the cake house.
1998 R. McCollum Thousand Hills i. 11 She reached the cake house and discovered there was absolutely no way she could lift the one-hundred-pound cake sacks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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