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back kitchens

n. (back kitchen English)

Usage examples of "back kitchens".

I was scarcely a face to these people, and I watched the guildsmistresses' slippers flop into back kitchens and listened forthe chime of the broken-spouted teapot where they innocently kept their money.

Seated under trees, under striped canopies in the squares, they bend together over food and drink, their voices darkly raveled in Oriental laments that flow from radios in basements and back kitchens.

They were probably about the same age as Vesta Bainbridge, but they had an aura of back kitchens about them, tea served to shirt-sleeved men doing their pools, the telly flicking and shouting in the corner.

Once, when I was an efficient operator full of good sense and energy, I might have wandered through the back kitchens to locate a well and buckets in advance.

The two leaned their elbows on it and gazed down into the blackness that shrouded the back kitchens below.