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

The lights had by this time vanished within the vegetable cellar that had been built underground for frost protection in the cold winters.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

The writer has heard, for instance, of an attack of malaria being caused by a short visit to a damp vegetable cellar; and it is one of the triumphs of the century that the malarial parasite has been discovered, and the old theory of the dangers of moisture been done away with.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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