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 sellscooked food .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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A cookshop was his next point of call, where he feasted in extravagance and greasy luxury.
Kim 2003
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A cookshop was his next point of call, where he feasted in extravagance and greasy luxury.
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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"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
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"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
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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
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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
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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.
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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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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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