Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A shop where food is cooked and sold.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An eating house.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A shop that sells cooked food.

Etymologies

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cook +‎ shop

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Examples

  • I suspect a visit to the nearest cookshop is in order 'cos I've just noticed the thing (can't think of the right word) I use to get eggs out of the frying pan has a great big bend in it.

    Kitchen Confidential Peter Ashley 2008

  • A cookshop was his next point of call, where he feasted in extravagance and greasy luxury.

    Kim 2003

  • A cookshop was his next point of call, where he feasted in extravagance and greasy luxury.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "Now I should ha 'thought that you'd have spent your money in the cookshop, which is so much more natural.

    Japhet, in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820

  • "Now I should ha 'thought that you'd have spent your money in the cookshop, which is so much more natural.

    Japhet in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820

  • The blue typographic plates were in pride of place on the vicar's wife's kitchen dresser, a souvenir from either Lake Como or a Lakeland cookshop.

    Unexpected Alphabets No 4 Peter Ashley 2008

  • Dinner was a more elaborate meal than the lunches Kellen had enjoyed at Perulan's house, with a large hot meat pie brought from the local cookshop, roast fowl and potatoes prepared by Perulan's all-but-invisible maidservant, baked apples roasted on the hearth, and candied fruits and wine to follow.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • So they went forth from the tents; and the tie of blood drew Ajib towards his father, and forthwith they passed through the gateway, Bab al-Faradis 464 hight, and entered the city and ceased not walking through the streets till they reached the cookshop, where they found Hasan of Bassorah standing at the door.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • When he was positively obliged to dine at his own cost, he sent his tiger to fetch a couple of dishes from a cookshop, never spending more than twenty-five sous.

    Albert Savarus 2007

  • When he was positively obliged to dine at his own cost, he sent his tiger to fetch a couple of dishes from a cookshop, never spending more than twenty-five sous.

    Albert Savarus 2007

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