scullery

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From Anglo-Norman squillerie, from Old French escuelerie (office of the servant in charge of plates), from escuele (bowl, dish), from Latin scutella.

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scullery (plural sculleries)

  1. (archaic) A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.
    • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm [], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
      With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.

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