[f. CAKE sb. + HOUSE sb.]
† 1. A house where cakes are sold. Obs. or dial.
1666. Pepys, Diary (1879), III. 421. Thence took them to the cakehouse, and there called in the coach for cakes and drank.
1782. V. Knox, Ess. (1819), III. clxx. 243. The cake-house at Hoxton.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xvi. On the other side of the lake … is a … cake-house.
2. A building where cakes of anything, e.g., indigo, are stored.
1878. J. Inglis, Sport & Work Nepaul Frontier, iv. 34. The cake-house boys run to and fro between the cutting-table and the cake-house with batches of cakes [of indigo] on their heads.
