kitchen midden

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noun

a mound consisting of shells of edible mollusks and other refuse, marking the site of a prehistoric human habitation.

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1860–65; translation of Danish kökkenmödding

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Follet lived at the ramshackle hotel, owned by the ancient Dubois and managed, from roof to kitchen-midden, by Ching Po.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story|Various
Midden, mid′en, n. a heap of ashes or dung (see also Kitchen-midden).
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)|Various
Whether they be remnants of an elevated sea-beach, or of some Indian ‘kitchen-midden,’ I dare not decide.
At Last|Charles Kingsley
From the kitchen-midden to the pinnacle of all that is great to-day extends a chain not a link of which is weak.
The Story of Ab|Stanley Waterloo

Sir Banas, he comes in the night and makes them all alive at the back of our kitchen-midden,' piped the child.
Kim|Rudyard Kipling

British Dictionary definitions for kitchen midden

kitchen midden

noun

archaeol the site of a large mound of domestic refuse marking a prehistoric settlement: usually including bones, potsherds, seashells, etc

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kitchen midden

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