Originally cook’s shop. A shop where cooked food is sold; an eating-house.
α. 1552. Huloet, Cokes shope, popina.
1600. Rowlands, Let. Humours Blood, iii. 9. Such vulgar diet with Cookes shops agree.
1625. Massinger, New Way, II. ii. The cooks shop in Ram Alley.
1710. Addison, Tatler, No. 249. ¶ 8. [He] carried me to a Cook’s-Shop.
1726. Amherst, Terræ Filius, xlvii. (1741), 252. Frequenting … inns, cooks-shops, taverns.
β. 1615. Sir E. Hoby, Curry Combe for a Coxe-Combe, 10. It seemes he hath … been brought vp … rather in a cooke-shop.
1677. Act 29 Chas. II., c. 7 § 3. In inns, cooke-shops, or victualling houses.
1851. D. Jerrold, St. Giles, viii. 71. He dined and supped in an eastern cook-shop.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), II. 33. Running to and fro of boys from cook-shops.
