Scullery (noun) (mainly historic)
skul-u-ree
A small kitchen or room at the back of a house used for washing dishes and other dirty household work.
Late Middle English (denoting the department of a household concerned with kitchen utensils): from Old French escuelerie, from escuele ‘dish’, from Latin scutella ‘salver’, diminutive of scutra ‘wooden platter’.
Example sentences
“He kept them in the scullery.”
Praetorian (adj) (noun) pri-taw-ree-un of or relating to a praetor (a magistrate in the Roman republic). a soldier of the Praetorian Guard (Roman imperial army) First recorded in 1375–1425; late…
