Used as a term of address to a baker throughout The House with the Green Shutters, by George Douglas. The novel is set in a fictional Scottish town at the end of the nineteenth century. Bakers are not normally addressed by their professional title,...

A baker is someone who primarily bakes and sells bread. Cakes and similar foods may also be produced, as the traditional boundaries between what is produced by a baker as opposed to a pastry chef have blurred in recent decades. The place where a baker...