Crossword clues for kitchenette
kitchenette
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kitchenette \Kitch`en*ette"\, n. [Kitchen + -ette.] A room combining a very small kitchen and a pantry, with the kitchen conveniences compactly arranged, sometimes so that they fold up out of sight and allow the kitchen to be made a part of the adjoining room by opening folding doors.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1905, American English, a hybrid from kitchen + -ette.
Wiktionary
n. small kitchen or area for preparing food, often just a part of a room instead of a separate room
WordNet
n. small kitchen
Wikipedia
A kitchenette is a small cooking area.
In some motel and hotel rooms, small apartments, college dormitories, or office buildings, a kitchenette usually consists of a small refrigerator, a microwave oven or hotplate, and, less frequently, a sink. New York City building code defines a kitchenette as a kitchen of less than 7.4 m (80 ft) of floor space.
Kitchenettes are a common feature in hotel and motel guest rooms and often contain a coffeemaker, a refrigerator, and small countertop, commonly called a mini-bar. Some hotel kitchenettes have provisioned refrigerators that have an interior movement sensor feature used by management to monitor guest use of the refrigerator's contents and thus charge for the consumables. This feature can be a point of contention because a guest may want to review the product before consuming it or to see what else there may be inside but that movement is enough to trigger the sensor and thus be charged.
In British English, the term kitchenette also refers to a small secondary kitchen in a house. Often it is found on the same floor as the children's bedrooms, and used by a nanny or au pair to prepare meals for children; the same feature can be found in hotels such as some in London.
The word kitchenette was also used to refer to a type of small apartment prevalent in African American communities in Chicago and New York City during the mid-twentieth century. Landlords often divided single-family homes or large apartment units into smaller units to house more families. Living conditions in these kitchenettes were often wretched; the author Richard Wright described them as "our prison, our death sentence without a trial".
In Brazil, a kitchenette (spelled "quitinete" in Brazilian Portuguese) is a very small apartment. It is basically composed of one room, one bathroom, and a kitchen, which is often in the same space as the room. It corresponds to the studio apartment in American culture (or studio flat in the UK).
Usage examples of "kitchenette".
I dumped the mess in the kitchenette, and started to erase the second message, then decided, what the crash, I should hear Laddo out.
On a work surface in the tiny kitchenette, Suttle found a half-eaten kebab and chips in a nest of stained newsprint.
Still yowling, he ran to the small alcove the landlord liked to call a kitchenette, and then back to Sam.
It was a one-room with a kitchenette and cracks in the ceiling that sometimes leaked brown drops of water.
In the cabinet in the kitchenette, she found a bottle of Glenlivet whisky with an inch left in the bottom and added it to.
The media center contained a tiny kitchenette unit along with everything else, water heater and antique hotbox, and a limited supply of dried staples.
I do not wander around educational institutions with powdered peach pits in my pocket, nor do I slip into kitchenettes to sabotage little jars of peach compote.
Jerry stomped out of the kitchenette with a bottle of soda and a brown bag.
The kitchenette, with its autochef, its little round table and chairs, was empty too.
Two women were seated in the kitchenette, one on a banquette and the other on a chrome dinette chair pulled close to a hinged table that was supported by one leg.
While her mother boiled eggs and brewed tea in the minuscule kitchenette, she and her father sat carefully wrapping breakables in newspaper before stowing them in the china barrels.
I whirled and went racing buckety-blip to the kitchenette, where my stash had a second exit into a short elbow corridor.
And later on he would be taken back to his apartment with no doorknobs on the doors and there would be a blue pill in a white dish on the counter in the kitchenette and in a little while he would stop feeling nervous and depressed.
He went into the kitchenette, separated from the living room by a breakfast bar, and spat into the sink.
Behind me, the corridor made a left-hand turn into a cul-de-sac with the copy room on one side and the new kitchenette on the other.