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

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

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

Eilonwy was putting away earthen bowls and dishes when Taran hurried into the scullery.

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

It contained numerous little ante-rooms, garrets, closets, and box-rooms, little landings with balustrades, little statues on carved wooden pillars, and all kinds of back passages and sculleries.

From Virgin Soil by R. S. Townsend

Those pleasant hostesses and maidens seemed to be in charge of departments or on duty in wards, or kitchens, or sculleries.

From France at War On the Frontier of Civilization by Rudyard Kipling

The hall is connected with an ample kitchen, and a series of butteries, pantries, and sculleries of suitable size.

From Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant