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

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Example Sentences

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stillroom

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

From The Reason Why by Elinor Glyn

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 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

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 P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

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 Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers

The head housemaid ranks next to the head stillroom maid.

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

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