dumbwaiter
Example Sentences
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Occasionally, your group will be divided, communicating only by a makeshift dumbwaiter in the byzantine rooms that create the sensation of being in a maze-like mansion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
It's a dumbwaiter that was designed to carry these heavy glass plates.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2023
And yet when I finally, as an adult, had a dumbwaiter shaft in my old, rented house, I found it scary, drafty.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2022
Built in 1892, its features from that era include a 25-foot-long hallway, pocket doors and a butler’s pantry with a dumbwaiter.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
Then I send down the dumbwaiter and raise the trays one by one.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
