cookhouse

English

Etymology

cook +‎ house

Noun

cookhouse (plural cookhouses)

  1. A small house where cooking takes place; a kitchen house.
    • 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
      I got the food ready, almost on time, then had to hunt down the two little boys whose job it was to ferry it from cookhouse to table and then serve it.
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