dumbwaiter
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Occasionally, your group will be divided, communicating only by a makeshift dumbwaiter in the byzantine rooms that create the sensation of being in a maze-like mansion.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023
It's a dumbwaiter that was designed to carry these heavy glass plates.
From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2023
And yet when I finally, as an adult, had a dumbwaiter shaft in my old, rented house, I found it scary, drafty.
From Salon • Jul. 13, 2022
Built in 1892, its features from that era include a 25-foot-long hallway, pocket doors and a butler’s pantry with a dumbwaiter.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2022
On the upstairs landing we discover something called a dumbwaiter, which, upon inspection, is not dumb at all.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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