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scullery

[skuhl-uh-ree, skuhl-ree] / ˈskʌl ə ri, ˈskʌl ri /
NOUN
galley
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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

Creaky, cozy and atmospheric, it has wide-plank floors covered in rush matting, a scullery with a Belfast sink skirted with linen and a cabinet that once held powdered wigs.

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2021

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

It is also forbidden to use the kitchens, sculleries, or cellars for sleeping rooms, unless specially permitted by the police.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

There are very few establishments large enough to indulge in the luxury of a servants'-hall, and sculleries and pantries are much smaller than in England.

From Town Life in Australia by Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny

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

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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