vegetable cellar

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of vegetable cellar¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

This done, still on all-fours, he gained the bulkhead of the small dark vegetable cellar beneath the kitchen.

From Project Gutenberg

I was going to have him whitewash the vegetable cellar, take down and clean the laundry stovepipe and do some other jobs.

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