scullery
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.
a small room or section of a pantry or kitchen in which cooking utensils are cleaned and stored.
Origin of scullery
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How to use scullery in a sentence
There were no scullery chores or sewing for this spirited redhead.
He took the things noiselessly into the kitchen, shut the door, and master of the kitchen and scullery washed up.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeThe scullery was cold, bare, and empty; more like a large prison cell than anything else.
The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories | Algernon BlackwoodThese they put into a small bag, and mephisto went back through the scullery into the back garden and hid these spoons in a bush.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend | Charles ReadeIt appeared to consist of a living-room and a scullery, with a patch under the skeleton of a sort of penthouse at the back.
Mushroom Town | Oliver Onions
He knew—dead Ned seemed to tell him—that the wall between the living-room and the scullery might stand.
Mushroom Town | Oliver Onions
British Dictionary definitions for scullery
/ (ˈskʌlərɪ) /
mainly British a small room or part of a kitchen where washing up, vegetable preparation, etc is done
Origin of scullery
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