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Synonyms for bakery


Grammar : Noun
Spell : bey-kuh-ree, beyk-ree
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbeɪ kə ri, ˈbeɪk ri



Définition of bakery

Origin :
  • c.1820, "place for making bread;" see bake (v.) + -ery. Replaced earlier bakehouse (c.1400). As "shop where baked goods are sold" it was noted as an Americanism by British travelers from c.1830.
  • noun cooking business where baked goods are produced
Example sentences :
  • He went into the bakery, his hat a-tilt, with the air of a conqueror.
  • Extract from : « The Trimming of Goosie » by James Hopper
  • Some were picking up crumbs of bread which had been swept out from the bakery.
  • Extract from : « Winning His Way » by Charles Carleton Coffin
  • Two waifs adrift in a storm, peering into a bakery window at the cookies.
  • Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht
  • The bakery was one of the few buildings that had been miraculously spared.
  • Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Detroit » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
  • It's almost as satisfyin' as walkin by the back door of a bakery when you're hungry.
  • Extract from : « Torchy » by Sewell Ford
  • You can keep a bakery, or do city shopping for country ladies.
  • Extract from : « Girls and Women » by Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}
  • These were soon found in a large attic at the top of a house, over a bakery.
  • Extract from : « The Martian » by George Du Maurier
  • They keep quiet when I am by; but the other day I surprised them in the bakery.
  • Extract from : « Germinie Lacerteux » by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
  • An' I was goin' to get out o' this by givin' fifty cents out o' the bakery till.
  • Extract from : « Friendship Village » by Zona Gale
  • It has been sometimes found that the alum was put in at the mill instead of the bakery.
  • Extract from : « The Humbugs of the World » by P. T. Barnum

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