English

Noun

cakeshop ‎(plural cakeshops)

1. Alternative form of cake shop
   • 1914, James Joyce, Dubliners, Grant Richards Ltd., page 136:

     As he did not wish their last interview to be troubled by the influence of their ruined confessional they met in a little cakeshop near the Parkgate.

   • 1962, James Gindin, Postwar British Fiction: New Accents and Attitudes, University of California Press, page 75:

     The girl and the young man’s first wife, accepting the male’s infidelity without scenes or recriminations, finally agree to start a cakeshop in another basement and leave the young man to his newest mistress.

   • 2009, Dani Cavallaro, Anime and the Visual Novel: Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games, McFarland & Company, ISBN 978-0-7864-4427-4, page 87:

     …disquieted by the discovery that on the very spot where she expected to find a small familiar cakeshop, a large bookstore now stands instead.