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A small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen
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scullery
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c. (early 14c. as a surname), "household department concerned with the care of kitchen utensils," from Old French escuelerie "office of the servant in charge of plates, etc.," from escuelier "keeper of the dishes," from escuele "dish" (12c., Modern ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A scullery is a room in a house traditionally used for washing up dishes and laundering clothes, or as an overflow kitchen when the main kitchen is overloaded. Tasks performed in the scullery include cleaning dishes and cooking utensils (or storing them), ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (formerly) A small room, next to a kitchen, where wash up and other domestic chores are done.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen; where kitchen utensils are cleaned and kept and other rough household jobs are done
Usage examples of scullery.
Teku clung to his shoulder as he maneuvered out of the conservatory, through the carpeted hallway, back past the ornate domed room, and finally toward the scullery where Freen and the two chambermaids were finishing up.
I got home, Nurse and Adar and Cookey were in scullery, all saying loud about Slippers and Kitchen Cat and Smallest.
After retrieving her pots and pans and persuading her militia draftees to resume their original positions as maids, table servers, cooks and scullery personnel, she whipped up a great victory feast from what was left in the royal pantry.
I slid down the rubbish, struggled to my feet, clapped my hands over my ears, and bolted into the scullery.
He had made up his mind, as he explained to Molly Grue in the scullery that evening, nevermore to trouble the Lady Amalthea with his attentions, but to live quietly in the thought of her, serving her ardently until his lonely death, but seeking neither her company, her admiration, nor her love.
Janey has been relieved of her extra duties and is a simple scullery maid again, overjoyed no doubt to be responsible only for mops, rags and brushes.
In the subterranean kitchen, a bleary-eyed Janey mops at the puddles which, during the night, have trickled in through the grimy steam-vents, the scullery window and the stairwell.
He grabbed the chain of one shrieker, Orra, a plump scullery slave, and yanked her toward him.
Then he went to the scullery, wetted his hands, scooped the last white dough out of the punchion, and dropped it in a baking-tin.
He retired into the scullery, where Mrs Ruddle, armed with a hand-bowl, was scooping boiling water from the copper into a large bath-can.
The role, though dull, was not a useless one, for Mrs Ruddle, with a large knife in her hand, was standing at the scullery door as though prepared to carry out a butcherly kind of post-mortem upon whatever might be brought up from the cellar.
Even the scullery maids of the Figureheadless Tavern along the eastern dock walk in Velen were not so forceful.
It states in effect that one Penny Walden, scullery maid at Aulden House, arrived on foot and reported the murders of Sir Brandon Miles and several of his retainers, bodies to be found in the Aulden dungeon.
Had she misguessed the time, or were the scullery maids about their work later than usual?
Mared discovered most of the servants had left, save Moreen the scullery maid, who had no place to go.