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  • noun Plural form of cookshop.

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Examples

  • Armenian cookshops they serve you delicious fish, and a stout raisin wine of no small merit.

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • Rostopchin who did not turn up, they became convinced that Moscow would be surrendered, and then dispersed all about the town to the public houses and cookshops.

    War and Peace 2003

  • I had the same pleasure, that evening, in hearing her dismiss the most famous of them as mere cookshops that I had had long ago, when I learned with regard to theatrical artists that the hierarchy of their merits did not at all correspond to that of their reputations.

    Within a Budding Grove 2003

  • And soon after that, rows of shops anchored by taverns, cookshops, or inns began to displace houses, and temple facades poked in among the shops, with shrines in city squares or on corners.

    Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • And soon after that, rows of shops anchored by taverns, cookshops, or inns began to displace houses, and temple facades poked in among the shops, with shrines in city squares or on corners.

    Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • People came and went from cookshops and taverns, groups of young toughs strolled about looking for whatever they could get into, streetwalkers sauntered wherever there was a bit of illumination, with their keepers (if they had one) lurking just out of sight of potential customers.

    Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • First off, a half-sack of flour, followed by a tub of tallow grease thriftily saved from cookshops where they skimmed off the grease from roasting and frying, and resold to those who could not afford butter and candles.

    Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • Most of the inns and cookshops had put benches out onto the street, so people could eat outside where it was cooler.

    Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • Smellest thou not already the shambles and cookshops of the spirit?

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • No sounds of cooking this past fortnight; Jass was eating out of cookshops rather than add to the heat in his rooms by lighting a fire.

    Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

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