diet kitchen

American  

noun

1. a kitchen, as in a hospital, where special food is prepared for those requiring it.

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Etymology

Origin of diet kitchen

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

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Example Sentences

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diet kitchen

WACs and Army nurses prepared baby formulas in a special diet kitchen.

From Time Magazine Archive

At White House, she took charge of the low diet kitchen for the whole Sixth Corps, to which her division had been transferred.

From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Henry W. Bellows

I'm on the water-wagon and the diet kitchen.

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes

In the race for Richmond which followed, Miss Barton's train was hospital and diet kitchen to the Ninth Corps, and much of the time for the other Corps also.

From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Henry W. Bellows

We bumped through the diet kitchen and into the scullery, when we found we had no matches.

From Where There's a Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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