Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1893, from serve + -ery.
Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly British English) A place where food is served, either the surface itself or the room; a food counter or canteen/cafeteria service area.
Usage examples of "servery".
Lined up along the servery there were wooden bowls, each with a limp piece of lettuce and a segment of pale-pink tomato.
The servery was a narrow room with one long aluminum table at which the diners could approximate sitting by hooking their knees around the railing half a meter down from each edge of the table.
William, blinking sweat as Samuel led him to a parlour with a servery, decided that money was their character, the thing that named them for a group.
There appeared in the servery a young woman with a thinnish face, almost severe, and creamy, enormous breasts, unfettered by a handkerchief, even the brown nipples open to his gaze.
Shelves lined the walls from floor to ceil ing, and there was a small table and two chairs, and a servery cabinet which held a sink, crockery, cutlery, an electric kettle and a small microwave.
The servery there was larger than most, well equipped with shelves of flagons and bowls.
Presently the door into the servery opened and their waiter came in with an armful of Sunday papers.
The yeoman of the servery stepped forward with her and they both bowed.
Kitty returned to Athelstan to get her own tea from the Servery, for on Saturdays and Sundays no evening meal was provided, and the students supplied their own suppers at half-past nine.
Both were already at the Servery when Kitty arrived, but neither spoke to the other.
Then she descended the front stairs to the Servery, retrieved her plate, and went pensively into the Common Room.
Once there, she ate the food as quickly as she could, did not go back to the Servery for cakes or a cup of tea, but paid a hasty visit to the boxroom.
Mrs Bradley had given her a bed in the Guest Room, which was on the ground floor between the Servery and the Junior or North Common Room.
Alleyn went to tell Hilary of the latest development, he and Fox visited Nigel in the servery, where they found him sitting in an apparent trance with an assembly of early morning tea trays as his background.
The afternoon waned as she inspected the work going on in the buttery, the servery, and the hall.