cookroom

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English

Etymology

From cook +‎ room.

Noun

cookroom (plural cookrooms)

  1. (India, historical) A kitchen or room for cookery.
    • 1855, Pharoah and Co, A Gazetteer of Southern India, page 553:
      [] there is a cookroom and privy in the rear of the building, the latter being connected with the hospital by a covered passage.
  2. The galley or caboose of a ship.
    • c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service:
      [] in all their Ships (for the most Part) the Cook-rooms are built in their Forecastles, contrary to that which hath been anciently used.

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