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cookhouse

[kook-haus] / 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

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

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

I watch from a distance when the flag goes up over the cookhouse at lunchtime.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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 Hugh Dalton, Baron Dalton

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

But day schools were not intended for lodging purposes, and here again was displayed Major Martin's skill in the erection of cookhouses and more wash-tubs and other domestic essentials.

From The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. by John David Hills


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