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- noun a shop or cafe that sells
cupcakes
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Examples
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The 'cupcakery'- a bakery that sells only cupcakes- appeared worldwide.
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This certainty, however, did not stop people from questioning her sanity when they heard she was planning to open a new business — a "cupcakery" called CupCapes of Falmouth — despite the dire economic tidings of recent months.
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Last night I Googled "cupcakery" to see if we were missing any bakeries from our ever-growing list at right one non-"cupcakery" named bakery we newly added is Indianapolis's The Flying Cupcake Bakery.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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Last night I Googled "cupcakery" to see if we were missing any bakeries from our ever-growing list at right one non-"cupcakery" named bakery we newly added is Indianapolis's The Flying Cupcake Bakery.
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Downtown Cincinnati has its first "cupcakery," with the opening of
Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2010
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At first, the word "cupcakery" seems somewhat suggestive-a unique play on the words cupcake and bakery.
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION? Ron Coleman 2010
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While "cupcakery" may have been a unique word at one time, because The Cupcakery did not pursue trademark protection early (assuming that the company was the first one to use the phrase - a fact I have not verified), such oversight may have resulted in the word "cupcakery" joining the general lexicon as a word identifying a "cupcake bakery" rather than a word identifying a single source of goods and services.
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION? Ron Coleman 2010
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Downtown Cincinnati has its first "cupcakery," with the opening of
National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals 2010
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I assumed that they were waiting for tickets to hear Lady Gaga or Sarah Palin, but when I asked my daughter, she said they were lined up for cupcakes at the city's premier cupcakery, the subject of a recent cable TV reality show.
Time for a Frosty Farewell to Cupcakes Joe Queenan 2011
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But someone can't just say that the cupcake trend is dead when, in any major city, you can't huck a brick without a reasonable chance it will go through the window of the local cupcakery.
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