scullery
noun
a small room or section of a pantry in which food is cleaned, trimmed, and cut into cooking portions before being sent to the kitchen.
sculleries
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pluralof scullery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For the first time, some of the men who had toiled anonymously in the palace sculleries stepped into the throne room.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those pleasant hostesses and maidens seemed to be in charge of departments or on duty in wards, or kitchens, or sculleries.
From France at War On the Frontier of Civilization by Rudyard Kipling
We then inspect the offices for the Clerk of the Course himself; wine-cellars, beer-cellars, larders, sculleries, and kitchens, all as gigantically appointed, and as copiously furnished as if they formed part of an ogre's castle.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
The kitchens, pantries, and sculleries are all on the same extensive scale, and fitted with all the large culinary requisites of first-class hotels.
From Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Will a water tap run in your sculleries, if there is no pipe that joins it with the source of supply?
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Alexander Maclaren
