bakery
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| —n , pl -eries | |
| 1. | Also called: bakehouse a room or building equipped for baking |
| 2. | a shop in which bread, cakes, etc, are sold |
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Bakery
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Word Origin & History
bakery
c.1820, "place for making bread" (see bake), replacing earlier bakehouse; as "shop where baked goods are sold" it was noted as an Americanism by British travelers from c.1830.
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Example sentences
Jumping the queue for fresh baked goods will be a lot harder if the whole neighborhood is following the same bakery, for instance.
If you happen to be near a bakery at closing time, ask the proprietor if you could give those baked goods a home instead.
One writer who ran up a considerable tab eventually went into the bakery business and tried to pay her back in ganache cakes.
But buying it in those days meant you were subjecting your family to whatever sanitary conditions existed at the bakery.
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