Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where cakes are made or sold.
- noun A place where cakes, as of soap, indigo, etc., are stored.
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Examples
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'If you would like to stay here, I will build you a cake-house to live in,' said the old gentleman.
Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009
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The Duke was helped toward the cake-house by the Ring in Hyde Park (where they fought), and died on the grass, before he could reach the house; and was brought home in his coach by eight, while the poor Duchess [5] was asleep.
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Two years ago, the A.B.C. amalgamated with Buzard's, an old established confectioner's in Oxford Street -- a famous cake-house.
All About Coffee 1909
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The Duke was helped toward the cake-house by the Ring in Hyde Park (where they fought), and died on the grass, before he could reach the house; and was brought home in his coach by eight, while the poor Duchess [5] was asleep.
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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"It is as in the fairy-tale, where Hansel and Gretel come to the cake-house out in the wood," Thora said.
Mogens and Other Stories Anna [Translator] Grabow 1866
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But on the other side of the lake, nearly opposite to Mervyn Hall, is a d-- d cake-house, the resort of walking gentlemen of all descriptions -- poets, players, painters, musicians -- who come to rave, and recite, and madden about this picturesque land of ours.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Hall, is a d-- d cake-house, the resort of walking gentlemen of all descriptions -- poets, players, painters, musicians -- who come to rave, and recite, and madden about this picturesque land of ours.
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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But on the other side of the lake, nearly opposite to Mervyn Hall, is a d-- d cake-house, the resort of walking gentlemen of all descriptions -- poets, players, painters, musicians -- who come to rave, and recite, and madden about this picturesque land of ours.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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The Duke was helped toward the cake-house by the Ring in Hyde Park
The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706
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d — d cake-house, the resort of walking gentlemen of all descriptions — poets, players, painters, musicians — who come to rave, and recite, and madden about this picturesque land of ours.
Guy Mannering 1815
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