scullery
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"It'd be nice for me to do something completely different. I'd love to do a comedy or I'd like to be a scullery maid in the kitchens in a period drama."
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
Dunk and Egg’s camaraderie fits the same tradition, proposing scullery maids can become queens.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026
One day she fell into conversation with a street musician after giving him some money and he encouraged her to follow his example, saying it would likely pay more than her scullery job.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
Creaky, cozy and atmospheric, it has wide-plank floors covered in rush matting, a scullery with a Belfast sink skirted with linen and a cabinet that once held powdered wigs.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2021
In the lowest of spirits, Taran followed the golden-haired girl to the scullery.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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For the first time, some of the men who had toiled anonymously in the palace sculleries stepped into the throne room.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The hall is connected with an ample kitchen, and a series of butteries, pantries, and sculleries of suitable size.
From Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant
The kitchens, pantries, and sculleries are all on the same extensive scale, and fitted with all the large culinary requisites of first-class hotels.
From Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
It is also forbidden to use the kitchens, sculleries, or cellars for sleeping rooms, unless specially permitted by the police.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Will a water tap run in your sculleries, if there is no pipe that joins it with the source of supply?
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Alexander Maclaren
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