scullery
scullery
Definition
scul·lery (skul′ər 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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