scullery

"It'd be nice for me to do something completely different. I'd love to do a comedy or I'd like to be a scullery maid in the kitchens in a period drama."

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

Dunk and Egg’s camaraderie fits the same tradition, proposing scullery maids can become queens.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026

Back when we first went five years ago, there were two levels, one of which involved schlepping your own snacks from the lobby like a “Downton Abbey” scullery maid.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

Mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, scullery maid Ella finally meets her prince.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2019

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial, and the barrel ot beer in the scullery was stove in with a kick from Boxer’s hoof, otherwise nothing in the house was touched.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

For the first time, some of the men who had toiled anonymously in the palace sculleries stepped into the throne room.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is also forbidden to use the kitchens, sculleries, or cellars for sleeping rooms, unless specially permitted by the police.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

A little flight of irregular steps leading out of the big room on to the first floor, where the housekeeper lived in state, gave access to the further rooms near the kitchen and sculleries.

From The Necromancers by Robert Hugh Benson

How often have I had to tell you, Timmy, not to go into other people's kitchens and sculleries?

From What Timmy Did by Marie Belloc Lowndes

It contained numerous little ante-rooms, garrets, closets, and box-rooms, little landings with balustrades, little statues on carved wooden pillars, and all kinds of back passages and sculleries.

From Virgin Soil by R. S. Townsend