Crossword clues for bakehouse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bakehouse \Bake"house`\ (b[=a]k"hous`), n. [AS. b[ae]ch[=u]s. See Bake, v. t., and House.] A house for baking; a bakery.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods. 2 A building principally containing ovens. 3 (context UK dialectal English) bakery.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A bakehouse is a building for baking bread. The term may be used interchangeably with the term " bakery", although the latter commonly includes both production and retail areas.
Designated bakehouses can be found in archaeological sites from ancient times, e.g., in Roman forts.
Historically there have been many types of bakehouses: individual, in the backyards of homesteads; communal, used by residents of a village or a town, and commercial.
Some of them used to be nothing but a huge oven, called oven-houses.
Dirmstein-Backhaus.jpg|The Bakehouse (Dirmstein), Germany, 2006 a pain maison cornec.jpg|An oven-house (four a pain maison), Saint-Rivoal, France Backhaus, Goennern, IMG 8134.jpg|A town bakehouse, Gönnern, Germany
The Bakehouse is a historical bakehouse in Dirmstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, designated as an item of the cultural heritage.
In late 1990s, this 300-year building was acquired, restored, and expanded by a France-born couple François and Marie-Colette Sagnier.
Bakehouse may refer to:
- Bakery
- Bakehouse (building)
- Bakehouse (Dirmstein), a cultural heritage bakehouse in Dirmstein, Germany
Usage examples of "bakehouse".
Jessica dawdled until Joseph departed, as he usually did, for the bakehouse, where his younger brother was employed, and the other servants were either in church or on their way to their own Sunday morning diversions.
There was a hellish blast of heat, and a smell of burning hair, and then they were standing in the bakehouse, surrounded by large, beautiful volumes of space.
In another minute he was bound, thrown onto the stone floor of the bakehouse, his head striking, and he lost consciousness.
The old baker, always gloomy and taciturn, was awake and all alone in his bakehouse, beginning his work in order to forget his worries.
There is nowhere near his bakehouse that Alessia could have been hidden, and we searched everywhere.
Finally, guardhouses and bakehouses, already falling to ruins like the mole, and an establishment for condensing water, still kept in working order, are the principal and costly novelties of the southern shore.
It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bakehouses the pyramids.
Like a silent shadow, Gillian flitted through the sleeping barracks and the hall, through the smoky kitchen and the stables, through the bakehouse beneath the wall.
There is nowhere near his bakehouse that Alessia could have been hidden, and we searched everywhere.
Finally she took three skins and rolled them up, then scavenged in the half-burned bakehouse and returned with several blackened loaves and two leather bottles filled with cider.
Around the common will be the communal facilities: a bathhouse (daily bathing is usually compulsory), bakehouse (for breads and roasts), laundry, infirmary and lying-in clinic (with a trained nurse's aide and midwife), storehouse, and possibly a small church, mosque, or temple depending on the region.