scullery in English

noun
1
a small kitchen or room at the back of a house used for washing dishes and other dirty household work.
A huge fireplace dominates this unused room while a tiny scullery is packed with old appliances.

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1. She rushed into the scullery and fetched some water.

2. He banged about in the scullery, hunting for wire.

3. Her grandmother, as usual, was sorting the washing in the scullery.

4. This room leads into the scullery where there's an open range.

5. Let's say for the sake of argument it was the scullery window.

6. " Martha, " she said, " has the scullery- maid had the toothache again today? "

7. I was in the scullery washing mud off my shoes, still as I listened.

8. There's a wide door between kitchen and scullery which is usually left propped open.

9. She unlocked the scullery door at seven-fifteen this morning - actually, she was late.

10. The kitchen and scullery had been swept and tidied up, and all the beds made.

11. I got off the stool and went into the scullery and turned the wireless off.

12. I went back into the scullery and opened the adjoining door to the front room.

13. I had gone out into the garden, closing the scullery door as quietly as I could.

14. In the scullery I found a note propped against a milk carton on the draining-board.

15. I remember squealing as we watch the black monster twitch its claws on the scullery floor.

16. Ask him to put some water in a bowl, and you can bring it into the scullery.

17. After which he gathered up her sodden clothes, gently, and put them in a separate heap on the copper-top in the scullery .

18. 26 Jimmy popped into the scullery then to turn the mutton chops in the pan in the gas oven.

19. Betty's hand was tight across her mouth now and she turned swiftly away and went back into the scullery.

20. But Achieving this state of godliness was left to the servants whose main domain was the kitchen and scullery.

21. There are the inevitable baking ovens beside powerful chimney stacks and meat hooks hanging from kitchen and scullery ceilings.

22. Each house had two rooms and scullery on the ground floor and two bedrooms on each of the upper storeys.

23. He paced up and down between the scullery and the living-room as if on the deck of a ship.

24. He almost ran down the hall, through the kitchen and into the little utility room that had once been a scullery.

25. He walked along the small passage leading to the kitchen, then padded beyond it into the scullery before pressing a light-switch.

26. Peari, the old scullery maid, is coming from the market, her basket laden with vegetables, wading through the slush and drenched with the rain.

27. The cooks who were preparing for the party fell asleep over the stirring and tasting. The scullery maids fell asleep over the washing up.

28. It really had not occurred to her to think of them in that light. Scullery maids were machines who carried coal scuttles and made fires.

29. Germaine, in the guise of the "Avengeress," sneaks through nighttime London of 1810 to rescue a 13-year-old scullery maid from being raped at knifepoint by her master, Sir Henry Claybourne

30. Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial, and the barrel of beer in the scullery was stove in with a kick from Boxer's hoof, otherwise nothing in the house was touched.

31. Bifold doors and roof windows let in the light The original kitchen was small and north facing with a separate scullery and a number of small annexes; originally used as coal holes and storage when the house was built (as a doctor's surgery).

32. The horses , too , went to sleep in the stable , the dogs in the yard , the pigeons upon the roof , the flies on the wall , even the fire that was flaming on the hearth became quiet and slept , the roast meat left off frizzling , and the cook , who was just going to pull the hair of the scullery boy , because he had forgotten something , let him go , and went to sleep .