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cookhouse

[kook-hous] / ˈkʊkˌhaʊs /
NOUN
chuck wagon
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With its faded red-shingle siding, the Samoa Cookhouse, which opened in 1893, is the last surviving lumberjack camp-style cookhouse in the Western U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2022

A video of a captured Russian army cookhouse gives an unappetising glimpse of the meals served to troops.

From BBC Mar. 24, 2022

Etcheverry and his 18 or so employees met for lunch in a dining room at the ranch’s cookhouse.

From Washington Times May 7, 2016

Mr. Choi, known as Chef King Biryong on screen, said his stint in the cookhouse when he was in the army inspired his shtick, but he feels he also has an emotional bond with viewers.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 10, 2014

The Big House, the cookhouse, the stables, formed a complete unit.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

In Australia, Chinese takeaways date back to the 1850s, when Chinese cookhouses and greengrocers provided for gold miners in remote parts of the country.

From Salon May 30, 2023

The village had been much shelled, first by Italian and then by Austrian guns, and there was not a house remaining undamaged, though several had been patched up as billets and cookhouses by British troops.

From With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement by Dalton, Hugh Dalton, Baron

Into the cookhouses, whence cutlery had vanished, crowded old men in bowlers and bonneted old women, whose bony fingers clutched convulsively at plates of leavings.

From Tales of the Wilderness by Pilniak, Boris

There were no fires, no cookhouses, only tents without floorboards.

From The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) by Cruttwell, C. R. M. F. (Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser)

Our energies at first were therefore concentrated on trying to make ourselves comfortable, and a considerable time was spent in carrying out improvements, making bathing arrangements, cookhouses, canteen and reading rooms.

From The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion by Weetman, W. C. C.




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