Meaning & use
scullery
A small room, typically off a kitchen, used for washing dishes and doing rough household chores.
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The maid scrubbed the pots and pans in the cold scullery at the back of the house.
Old country houses often had a scullery separate from the main kitchen for messy cleaning work.
A note on using this word
Scullery is largely a historical term today, mostly encountered in descriptions of older houses or period dramas.
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