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UK
/skˈʌləɹi/
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NOUN
- a small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen; where kitchen utensils are cleaned and kept and other rough household jobs are done
How To Use scullery In A Sentence
- Let's say for the sake of argument it was the scullery window.
- She enumerated the many rooms that were in the house: those that were covered with carpets, the margins whereof had to be beeswaxed: those others, only partially covered with rugs, which had to be entirely waxed: the upper rooms were uncarpeted and unrugged, and had, therefore, to be scrubbed: the basement, consisting of two red-flagged kitchens and a scullery, had also to be scoured out. Mary, Mary
- I like worthless, as the pinche, what the English called the scullery maid, was quite often a retarded girl (or sometimes boy) that did the lowest, dirtiest sorts of jobs in the kitchen and was often referred to (in English) as that worthless girl or boy. Flowers in the Desert
- Achieving this state of godliness was left to the servants whose main domain was the kitchen and scullery.
- The paved back court, under which the kitchen and scullery were situated, was to include at its northern end a ‘seat or small building’ with deal columns.
- As our family grew we'd hired more servants so that now we had a parlourmaid, two housemaids, two kitchenmaids, a scullerymaid, Mrs. Benson, Mr. Richards and the cook.
- I need to hear for myself why he was in the scullery that morning.
- I suggest you introduce yourself and get into the scullery.
- She followed him into the scullery, and combed her hair before the handbreadth of mirror by the back door. Lady Chatterley's Lover
- He picked up a twig from the ground and scraped the dirt off his boots before stepping into a small scullery and calling out.