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cookhouse

[kook-haus] / ˈkʊkˌhaʊs /
NOUN
chuck wagon
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Rowan insists Duryea’s footprint is the same as before he bought it, saying the property, even in the old days, had a cookhouse where seafood was prepared and sold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

An 11-mile drive up a scenic valley brings you to the Ashcroft Adventure Lodge, from where you snowshoe, cross-country ski or take a horse-drawn sleigh the final 1.3 miles to the cookhouse.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2018

Outside was the cookhouse, a little white frame cottage not far behind the main house.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

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

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

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

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 W. C. C. Weetman

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 Boris Pilniak

The mess tents and cookhouses are about alike in all the arms of the service.

From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White




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