cakeshop

See also: cake shop

English

Etymology

cake +‎ shop

Pronunciation
  • (UK): IPA(key): /ˈkeɪk.ʃɒp/
  • (US): enPR: kākʹshäp, IPA(key): /ˈkeɪk.ʃɑp/
  • Hyphenation: cake‧shop

Noun

cakeshop (plural cakeshops)

  1. Alternative form of cake shop
    • 1914 June, James Joyce, “(please specify the story)”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
      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.

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