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
Back when we first went five years ago, there were two levels, one of which involved schlepping your own snacks from the lobby like a “Downton Abbey” scullery maid.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
An unwelcome playboy courts the scullery maid who works for his girlfriend’s father.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2020
In the lowest of spirits, Taran followed the golden-haired girl to the scullery.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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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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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
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
Let all the offices, whence any noise or smell can arise, be perfectly detached from the dwelling part of the mansion:—such as the kitchens, sculleries, laundries, &c.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
How often have I had to tell you, Timmy, not to go into other people's kitchens and sculleries?
From What Timmy Did by Marie Belloc Lowndes
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