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  • noun Plural form of bakehouse.

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Examples

  • My guess would be forges, bakehouses, places where there is a lot of heat it would be good to get rid of, even in winter.

    Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • Finally, guardhouses and bakehouses, already falling to ruins like the mole, and an establishment for condensing water, still kept in working order, are the principal and costly novelties of the southern shore.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bakehouses the pyramids.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • So too the bakehouses, one communal, the other devoted to baking bread for Sirius and Supply.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • So too the bakehouses, one communal, the other devoted to baking bread for Sirius and Supply.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • See: give a note to every family, in proportion to the number of mouths, to go and get bread at the bakehouses.

    Chapter XIV 1909

  • On the 19th of August (1781) a considerable corps was ordered to cross the Hudson at Dobbs 'Ferry and to take a position between Springfield and Chatham, where they were directed to cover some bakehouses which it was rumored were to be immediately constructed in the vicinity of those places in order to encourage the belief that there the troops intended to establish a permanent post.

    Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903

  • A standard price was put on wheat the Government wanted, which knocked the farmer rather hard and hundreds of employees were thrown out of the bakehouses.

    The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia 1900

  • For here, as at Esneh and Assuân, there are large flour-stores and public bakehouses for the use of sailors on the river, who make and bake their bread in large lots; cut it into slices; dry it in the sun; and preserve it in the form of rusks for months together.

    A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

  • When they had all gone, and a smell of cinders and gravy had spread down the ancient high - street, and the pie-dishes from adjacent bakehouses had all travelled past, he saw the mail coach rise above the arch of Grey's Bridge, a quarter of a mile distant, surmounted by swaying knobs, which proved to be the heads of the outside travellers.

    The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

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