DHa room next to the kitchen in a large house, where cleaning jobs were done in pasttimes 〔旧时大宅中紧挨厨房的〕洗涤室
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scullery• There's a widedoor between kitchen and scullery which is usually left propped open.• The kitchen and scullery had been swept and tidied up, and all the beds made.• Her grandmother, as usual, was sorting the washing in the scullery.• In the scullery I found a note propped against a milkcarton on the draining-board.• I went back into the scullery and opened the adjoining door to the front room.• He walked along the small passage leading to the kitchen, then paddedbeyond it into the scullery before pressing a light-switch.• I remembersquealing as we watch the blackmonstertwitch its claws on the sculleryfloor.• She unlocked the scullery door at seven-fifteen this morning - actually, she was late.
Originscullery
(1400-1500)Old Frenchescuelerie“(room for) cleaning and storing of dishes”, from escuelle“bowl”, from Latinscutella; → SCUTTLE2