stillroom

American  

[stil-room, -room] / ˈstɪlˌrum, -ˌrʊm /

noun

1. (in a large house) a room for distilling or for the preparation of special foods and drinks.

2. a room off a kitchen for making tea, coffee, etc., and for storing liquors, tea, preserves, jams, wine, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of stillroom

First recorded in 1700–10; still ² + room

Example Sentences

The stillroom maids have breakfast and tea in the stillroom, and dinner and supper in the hall.

From Something New by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Valentine soon tired of so much pastoral exercise and departed to St. Germain's, leaving young Charles in the care of an old stillroom maid, now a prosperous farmer's wife.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

In English trains the tipping classes travel first; valets, lady's maids, footmen, nurses, and head stillroom maids, second; and housemaids, grooms, and minor and inferior stillroom maids, third.

From Something New by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

His wife and daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or a stillroom maid of the present day.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Rose-water, elder-flower water, and all stillroom mysteries found an expert in her, and she even concocted mead from an old recipe.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh