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Answer for the clue "Rooms for cleaning pots and pans ", 10 letters:
sculleries

Word definitions for sculleries in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of scullery English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scullery \Scul"ler*y\ (sk[u^]l"l[~e]r*[y^]), n.; pl. Sculleries (sk[u^]l"l[~e]r*[i^]z). [Probably originally, a place for washing dishes, and for swillery, fr. OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian (see Swill to wash, to drink), but influenced either by Icel. ...

Usage examples of sculleries.

Byron pulled on his clothes, saw the sculleries had mopped up the mess outside, so thanked them.

The sculleries alone made the marriage inevitable, to save Kade from being worked to a quick death scrubbing out acres of stone floors.

So they kept the good rooms, the dining room and the drawing room and made a kitchen out of a small study there was, and a couple of bedrooms and bathroom upstairs, and then walled it up and let the part that was kitchens and old-fashioned sculleries and things, and did it up a bit.

Within a few moments, sculleries were stuffing bug carcasses out the window, mopping up blood and sweeping up crockery.

Skirting sculleries, kitchens, laundries and engine-rooms, he led us through those mysterious labyrinths which have no existence for the guest above, but which contain the machinery that renders these modern khans the Aladdin's palaces they are.

Your deeds got into extemporised strong-rooms made of kitchens and sculleries, and fretted all the fat out of their parchments into the banking-house air.