Scullery Definition

skŭlə-rē
sculleries
noun
A room adjoining the kitchen, where pots and pans are cleaned and stored or where the rough, dirty kitchen work is done.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Scullery

Noun

Singular:
scullery
Plural:
sculleries

Origin of Scullery

  • Middle English from Old French escuelerie from escuelier keeper of dishes from escuele dish from Vulgar Latin scūtella alteration (influenced by scūtum shield) of Latin scutella salver diminutive of scutra platter

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old English, but probably influenced by Old Norse skola (“to wash") (> Danish skylle, Icelandic skyla).

    From Wiktionary

Scullery Sentence Examples

  • I have known Cinderella ever since she was a scullery maid.

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

  • With a distinct entrance from the outer court was the kitchen court (F), with its buttery, scullery and larder, and the important adjunct of a stream of running water.

  • Barnhill has a large kitchen and large scullery with double sinks.

  • His satellites--the senior clerk, a countinghouse clerk, a scullery maid, a cook, two old women, a little pageboy, the coachman, and various domestic serfs--were seeing him off.

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