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.”
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