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  • noun a shop or cafe that sells cupcakes

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Examples

  • The 'cupcakery'- a bakery that sells only cupcakes- appeared worldwide.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • This certainty, however, did not stop people from questioning her sanity when they heard she was planning to open a new business — a "cupcakery" called CupCapes of Falmouth — despite the dire economic tidings of recent months.

    Cupcake bakeries still thriving 2008

  • Last night I Googled "cupcakery" to see if we were missing any bakeries from our ever-growing list at right one non-"cupcakery" named bakery we newly added is Indianapolis's The Flying Cupcake Bakery.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • Last night I Googled "cupcakery" to see if we were missing any bakeries from our ever-growing list at right one non-"cupcakery" named bakery we newly added is Indianapolis's The Flying Cupcake Bakery.

    Here, there, everywhere a Cupcakery! 2007

  • Downtown Cincinnati has its first "cupcakery," with the opening of

    Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2010

  • At first, the word "cupcakery" seems somewhat suggestive-a unique play on the words cupcake and bakery.

    LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION? Ron Coleman 2010

  • While "cupcakery" may have been a unique word at one time, because The Cupcakery did not pursue trademark protection early (assuming that the company was the first one to use the phrase - a fact I have not verified), such oversight may have resulted in the word "cupcakery" joining the general lexicon as a word identifying a "cupcake bakery" rather than a word identifying a single source of goods and services.

    LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION? Ron Coleman 2010

  • Downtown Cincinnati has its first "cupcakery," with the opening of

    National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals 2010

  • I assumed that they were waiting for tickets to hear Lady Gaga or Sarah Palin, but when I asked my daughter, she said they were lined up for cupcakes at the city's premier cupcakery, the subject of a recent cable TV reality show.

    Time for a Frosty Farewell to Cupcakes Joe Queenan 2011

  • But someone can't just say that the cupcake trend is dead when, in any major city, you can't huck a brick without a reasonable chance it will go through the window of the local cupcakery.

    Lunch Room Chatter: Eat less chicken 2011

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