dumbwaiter

Example Sentences

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Another innovation was the dumbwaiter, which moved hot food and bottles of wine from the belowground kitchens and storerooms—called “dependencies”—up to the first floor.

From Literature

The grave confines of the men’s basement room seem to suggest a space where anything can happen — from a murder to a series of communications delivered by a dumbwaiter.

From New York Times

Its lofty isolation inspired Eddy to build the counterweight cable-car system that sent two little wooden cars up and down “like a robber baron’s extravagant dumbwaiter,” wrote Jim Dawson in his book about Angels Flight.

From Los Angeles Times

They also installed a dumbwaiter in the kitchen — another idea that Pushelberg was originally skeptical of.

From New York Times

The facility today still bears traces of that history: a door to a staff bathroom that’s too narrow for a wheelchair, a defunct dumbwaiter that’s been painted over.

From Seattle Times