kitchen refuse
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They slept beneath a set of stairs in an alley behind a tavern, tucked between a discarded stove and bags of kitchen refuse.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Kitch′en-range, a kitchen grate with oven, boiler, &c. attached, for cooking; Kitch′en-stuff, material used in kitchens: kitchen refuse, esp. fat from pots, &c.;
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
The intermittent character of occupancy is also shown by the distinct segregation of numerous successive layers of kitchen refuse.
From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke
They originated with pile dwellings in shallow water, where the kitchen refuse, chiefly shells, accumulates and rises above the surface, when the building appears to stand on posts in a low mound.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
Finally, the girl stopped as a stout woman appeared at a grille with a paper of kitchen refuse which she was about to throw into the street.
From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray
