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Word of the Day – Scullery

By February 20, 2022Word of the Day

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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