scullery

Definitions


[ˈskʌl(ə)ri], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a small kitchen or room at the back of a house used for washing dishes and other dirty household work


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Origin:
late Middle English (denoting the department of a household concerned with kitchen utensils): from Old French escuelerie, from escuele ‘dish’, from Latin scutella ‘salver’, diminutive of scutra ‘wooden platter’




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