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scullery
[ skuhl-uh-ree, skuhl-ree ]
noun
- a small room or section of a pantry in which food is cleaned, trimmed, and cut into cooking portions before being sent to the kitchen.
- a small room or section of a pantry or kitchen in which cooking utensils are cleaned and stored.
scullery
/ ˈskʌlərɪ /
noun
- a small room or part of a kitchen where washing up, vegetable preparation, etc is done
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Word History and Origins
Origin of scullery1
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Example Sentences
There were no scullery chores or sewing for this spirited redhead.
He took the things noiselessly into the kitchen, shut the door, and master of the kitchen and scullery washed up.
The scullery was cold, bare, and empty; more like a large prison cell than anything else.
These they put into a small bag, and mephisto went back through the scullery into the back garden and hid these spoons in a bush.
It appeared to consist of a living-room and a scullery, with a patch under the skeleton of a sort of penthouse at the back.
He knew—dead Ned seemed to tell him—that the wall between the living-room and the scullery might stand.
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