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
It contained numerous little ante-rooms, garrets, closets, and box-rooms, little landings with balustrades, little statues on carved wooden pillars, and all kinds of back passages and sculleries.
From Virgin Soil by R. S. Townsend
Your deeds got into extemporised strong-rooms made of kitchens and sculleries, and fretted all the fat out of their parchments into the banking-house air.
From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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
They passed through the hall; thence down a stone stairway into an ample vaulted kitchen, and thence along a slate-flagged corridor flanked by sculleries, larders and other kitchen offices.
From News from the Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
