bakery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A place where bread, cakes, and pastries are made and sold.

   The smell of fresh bread drifted out of the bakery.

From bake + -ery (“place of”). Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally "place for making bread"; as "shop where baked goods are sold", it was believed by British travelers by 1832 to be an American-invented term.

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