stillroom

American  

[stil-room, -room] / ˈstɪlˌrum, -ˌrʊm /

noun

1. (in a large house) a room for distilling or for the preparation of special foods and drinks.

2. a room off a kitchen for making tea, coffee, etc., and for storing liquors, tea, preserves, jams, wine, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of stillroom

First recorded in 1700–10; still ² + room

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Example Sentences

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stillroom

Rose-water, elder-flower water, and all stillroom mysteries found an expert in her, and she even concocted mead from an old recipe.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers

His wife and daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or a stillroom maid of the present day.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

To be sure, she thought Katie might be in the stillroom, or the linen closet, or the bathroom, and there could be no reasonable cause of uneasiness.

From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Tristram, she knew, loved her stillroom maid's brown bread and butter.

From The Reason Why by Elinor Glyn

The stillroom maids have breakfast and tea in the stillroom, and dinner and supper in the hall.

From Something New by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

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