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 kitchens come with as many names as they do appliances: the dirty kitchen, the messy kitchen, the prep kitchen, the working kitchen and the scullery kitchen, to name a few.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2022

Abigail is put to work in the castle scullery, where, after enduring a few burns and lashes but also demonstrating some pluck and ingenuity, she earns Sarah’s grudging respect and, in time, the queen’s affections.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2018

The Princess Eilonwy hurried from the scullery, her apron flying and a cookpot still in her hand.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

He next went into the kitchen and the sculleries and locked the outer doors in that quarter.

From The Lion's Share by Arnold Bennett

They passed through the hall; thence down a stone stairway into an ample vaulted kitchen, and thence along a slate-flagged corridor flanked by sculleries, larders and other kitchen offices.

From News from the Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Your deeds got into extemporised strong-rooms made of kitchens and sculleries, and fretted all the fat out of their parchments into the banking-house air.

From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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