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
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
The hall is connected with an ample kitchen, and a series of butteries, pantries, and sculleries of suitable size.
From Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant
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
It is also forbidden to use the kitchens, sculleries, or cellars for sleeping rooms, unless specially permitted by the police.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
