scullery
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈskʌləɹi/
scullery (plural sculleries)
- (historical) A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:
- 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.
- French: arrière-cuisine, souillarde
- Russian: судомо́йня
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