cakeshop
See also: cake shop
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: cake‧shop
Noun
cakeshop (plural cakeshops)
- Alternative form of cake shop
- 1914, James Joyce, Dubliners, Grant Richards Ltd., page 136:
- 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.
- 1962, James Gindin, Postwar British Fiction: New Accents and Attitudes, University of California Press, page 75:
- 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.
- 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:
- …disquieted by the discovery that on the very spot where she expected to find a small familiar cakeshop, a large bookstore now stands instead.
- 1914, James Joyce, Dubliners, Grant Richards Ltd., page 136: