bakehouse

Meaning

Noun

• A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
• A building principally containing ovens.
• Bakery.

Origin

• From Middle English bakhows, bakhous, bachous, from Old English bæchūs ("bakery, bakehouse"), equivalent to bake + house. Cognate with Scots bake-hous ("bakehouse, bakery"), Saterland Frisian Bakhuus ("bakehouse"), Low German backhus ("bakehouse").