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

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stillroom

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

To be sure, she thought Katie might be in the stillroom, or the linen closet, or the bathroom, and there could be no reasonable cause of uneasiness.

From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

Tristram, she knew, loved her stillroom maid's brown bread and butter.

From The Reason Why by Glyn, Elinor

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)

It was perhaps because she was conscious that Martha was peeping at her through the stillroom window that she began to whistle.

From A Duel by Marsh, Richard