scullery
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"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
Of course, that life-changing event ends quite differently than the one remembered by a generation raised on Lesley Ann Warren mooning and crooning in her attractively appointed scullery.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
An unwelcome playboy courts the scullery maid who works for his girlfriend’s father.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2020
I thought about Sara Crewe in A Little Princess, pretending she is a prisoner in the Bastille to make her work as a scullery maid more bearable.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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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
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We then inspect the offices for the Clerk of the Course himself; wine-cellars, beer-cellars, larders, sculleries, and kitchens, all as gigantically appointed, and as copiously furnished as if they formed part of an ogre's castle.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
Will a water tap run in your sculleries, if there is no pipe that joins it with the source of supply?
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Alexander Maclaren
Outside the sculleries of the large hotels, or where banquets had been held, barrels of 'feast fragments used to be set.
From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
She was diminutive and flat-chested; her skin was sallow from life-long confinement in basement sculleries and the atmosphere of the Bloomsbury boarding-house.
From A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions by Bartimeus
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