cakeshop

cake·shop
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UK/ˈkeɪk.ʃɒp/US/ˈkeɪk.ʃɑp/

A form of cake shop — A shop where cakes can be bought.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nouncakeshop (plural cakeshops)

plural cakeshops

  1. alternativeAlternative form of cake shop.

    …disquieted by the discovery that on the very spot where she expected to find a small familiar cakeshop, a large bookstore now stands instead.

    2009, Dani Cavallaro, Anime and the Visual Novel: Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games, McFarland & Company,, →ISBN, page 87
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    As he did not wish their last interview to be troubled by the influence of their ruined confessional they met in a little cakeshop near the Parkgate.

    1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “A Painful Case”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 136

    The girl and the young man’s first wife, accepting the male’s infidelity without scenes or recriminations, finally agree to start a cakeshop in another basement and leave the young man to his newest mistress.

    1962, James Gindin, Postwar British Fiction: New Accents and Attitudes, University of California Press, page 75

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APA

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MLA

“cakeshop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cakeshop. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cakeshop,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cakeshop.

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