Crossword clues for stillroom
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stillroom \Still"room`\, n.
A room for distilling.
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An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. [Eng.]
Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action.
--Dickens.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A room containing a still (for distillation) 2 A pantry adjoining a kitchen where drinks etc were stored or prepared n. 1 A room containing a still (for distillation) 2 A pantry adjoining a kitchen where drinks etc were stored or prepared
WordNet
n. a pantry or storeroom connected with the kitchen (especially in a large house) for preparing tea and beverages and for storing liquors and preserves and tea etc [syn: still room]
Usage examples of "stillroom".
When later I courted Caro I did it mostly in the stillroom amid the perfume of herbs and wines, or - in fine weather - in the rosemary maze.
Unbeknownst to Eliot, Viv had sneaked back into the castle and hidden the remaining stolen stamps in the jam jar, again using her knowledge of his security system and his stillroom hobby to conceal the valuables in a way that would point away from her, if they were discovered.
When the man nevertheless appeared in the stillroom a few minutes later, Isolde understood two important things.
Then she swept from the stillroom, her head high and her jaw clenched.
Selena entered the odiferous stillroom at that moment, attired in a most becoming morning dress of amber crepe.
But there were the Upper Stillroom Maid, the Head of Housemaids, the Head of Parlormaids, and several other Heads of Somethings.
Though sick bay is not functional, perhaps in the interim, you could visit the herbal gardens in the Greensward and the stillroom you set up.
The door connecting the laundry and the stillroom was the only way between them, but it had no lock.
She knew their voices would fill that hall as well, so instead of relieving Rose, she scurried down to the stillroom, where she splashed cold water on her face.
There, he swilled down a glass of milk, rummaged through the cupboards, oiled a squeaky hinge on the stillroom door, then, having run out of excuses, made his way down the passageway toward the stairs.
She bobbed a cheeky curtsey to me, then took my hand and led me without a word to the cool, dark stillroom where the barrels of beer were stacked and there reached up and placed a soft kiss upon my mouth.
Or had my Court-wisdom shocked him into abandoning the gentry and their corrupt ways - to paint pictures of the likes of Meg Storey, perhaps, in return for a pint of ale, or a quick favour on the stillroom floor?
When Briga learned of this, she cornered Elen in the stillroom one afternoon and scolded her mistress severely, forgetting in her concern that she was only a servant.
They brought their harvest back to the stillroom, where they hung plants to dry or made the distillations that would be used later to cure winter ailments.
They came as often as Lady Glynnis allowed, sneaking sweets from the kitchen for me and clean-smelling herbs from the stillroom to ease my sore throat.