cook-house

A form of cookhouse — A small building where cooking takes place.

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Meanings

nouncook-house (plural cook-houses)

plural cook-houses

  1. alternativeAlternative form of cookhouse.

    She knew life was going to be wonderful here—wonderful and interesting, what with out-door cook-houses and cream-girdled dairies and pond paths and sun-dials, and Lost Diamonds, and Disappointed Houses and men who didn’t believe in any God—not even Ellen Greene’s God.

    1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon
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APA

cook-house. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cook-house

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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