vegetable cellar

American  

noun

1. a usually underground storage room where fresh vegetables can be stored at normally cool temperatures for later use.

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Etymology

Origin of vegetable cellar

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Next to the barn was a steaming manure pile and a thickly thatched vegetable cellar with Lenino's treasure�40 tons of seed potatoes.

From Time Magazine Archive

She tore open the door of the earth-covered vegetable cellar as she spoke, and thrust Jan and Marie inside.

From The Belgian Twins by Perkins, Lucy Fitch

Three men who wore the uniforms of French soldiers, one of whom was evidently a lieutenant, looked hastily up when Rod entered the vegetable cellar, and addressed them in the words we have given.

From The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line Or, With the Allies in France by Marlow, Ralph

She led us to a tiny underground apartment, probably a vegetable cellar, and there, on a bracket jutting from the mildewed wall, stood the painted plaster image of the saint.

From Where the Sabots Clatter Again by Shortall, Katherine

One of them was already finished, and filled with things that Jimmy himself liked—such as strips of tender bark from Farmer Green's young fruit trees, and bits of turnip from his vegetable cellar.

From The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit Sleepy-TimeTales by Fagan, Eleanor