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scullery Definition

scul·lery (skulər ē)

noun pl. -·ler·ies

Now Rare a room adjoining the kitchen, where pots and pans are cleaned and stored or where the rough, dirty kitchen work is done

Etymology: ME, room for care of plates, pans, and kitchen utensils < OFr escuelerie < escuelle, a dish < L scutella, salver, tray, dim. of scutra, platter

scullery Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • have: Many of the houses have no scullery or wash-house.

Preposition: with

  • boiler: In the next and final room was the scullery with a brick boiler heated by wooden blocks for washing the clothes.
  • sink: Barnhill has a large kitchen and large scullery with double sinks.
  • water: The 1950's also brought the luxury of a scullery with a cold water tap and a shared inside toilet.

Adjective modifier

  • small: The house is an ordinary cottage, with front room, kitchen and a small scullery on the ground floor.
  • separate: Such a house would have had five or six rooms but no separate scullery.
  • large: Barnhill has a large kitchen and large scullery with double sinks.

Modifies a noun

  • maid: For the scullery maid, the day began very early.
  • door: Three or four shots rang out from the direction of the scullery door.
  • floor: I lost heart, and lay down on the scullery floor for a long time, having no spirit even to move.
  • window: These we used to arrange in empty fish paste jars along the scullery window sill.
  • wall: She padded silently downstairs to where the looking-glass leaned against the scullery wall.
  • area: It has a fully fitted kitchen and separate scullery area.

Noun used with modifier

  • kitchen: There is a convenient house adjoining with entrance hall, sitting room, kitchen scullery, cellar, pantries and three bedrooms.

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