bakery

Etymology

From bake + -ery (“place of”).

noun

1. A shop in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
2. The trade of a baker.
3. (uncountable, US) Baked goods.
   Fresh bakery!
   1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Bridget & Jacob were coming home from the hospital bout 11:30. Kathy & I made a little "brunch" of bakery & coffee.
   Then, later, I think I saw them at Lemke's Tomahawk Foods getting roasted chicken from the delicatessen and at Nelson's County Market picking up some bakery and fruit. It looked like they were going on a picnic. 2011-01-27, Will Kalinke, Grandma Is a Saint, Trafford Publishing, →OCLC, page 9
   She set about preparing the house for everyone to come over. She and Danielle made the sandwiches and put them in the refrigerator. They got out plates, glasses, napkins and silverware and set up a buffet table. Chuck went to the bakery and got some bakery. 2011-09-07, Ann Carol, Dark Places, Author House, page 196
   Perhaps she would be able to bring me something to eat in the evening. Still it was doubtful if she could get away. I better had let her buy some bakery for me. With some inconceivable pride, or rather stubbornness, as I wanted money, I refused. In consequence, I suffered all night and the next day and the following night. 2017-05-01, James S. Peters, Sadakichi Hartmann, Alien Son: A Biography, Sunstone Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 121
   “The next morning I woke up and she was fast asleep. Guess I did pass out for a while. So I thought I would go surprise her, and I bought her some flowers and picked up some bakery in town. But when I got back, she wasn't in bed. […]” 2018-12-15, Hannah Katherine Klumb, The Suicide Bridge, Waterton Publishing Company, page 35
   Shen Lian thought for a moment, walked up to the table, and picked up some bakery, wine, and fruits. He then walked to the sofa in the corner of the hall and started eating without a care in the world. 2019-11-19, Wang YueShuangJiao, Super Bodyguard to Goddess Boss: Volume 2, Funstory, →OCLC, page 72
   - Thank you, Liza. Are you coming with me to get some fresh bakery? 2021-01-11, Olivier A. Guigues, Life, Liberty, Luxury - and Love?: The Short Version (Life, Liberty, Luxury - and Love?), BoD - Books on Demand, page 206