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bakery

ba·kery

UK/ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/ US/ˈbeɪk.ɹi/ fairly common slang us

noun

1.

a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold

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Origin

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. Sense 4 is by analogy with cake (“buttocks”).

Phrases

  • bakery paper
  • bakery release paper
  • couldn't organise a bun fight in a bakery
  • erotic bakery

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