cullions

Example Sentences

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Callow, the newsgatherers betrayed an ignorance of great scullions, cooks, laundresses.

From Time Magazine Archive

The kitchens were full of shadows and echoes, but the other cooks and scullions were all asleep in the cavernous lofts above the ovens.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Their plowmen and their clerks, their great lords and their scullions, all came to France to fight with us for la patrie.

From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various

So it was settled, and he has full powers to engage cooks, scullions, etc.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King

Nay, but I dare say they be short two scullions at the present hour.

From Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 by Various