kitchen refuse
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They slept beneath a set of stairs in an alley behind a tavern, tucked between a discarded stove and bags of kitchen refuse.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Jup was charged with taking them their daily nourishment, the kitchen refuse, and he acquitted himself conscientiously of the task.
From The Mysterious Island by White, Stephen W.
Decaying vegetables or fruit, fermenting kitchen refuse and other materials sometimes also serve as breeding-places.
From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Doane, Rennie Wilbur
The fragments of earthenware belong to articles of domestic use; with them are found querns, moulds for metal, portions of cabin floors, and great quantities of kitchen refuse.
To these accumulations the characteristic name of KITCHENMIDDINGS, or kitchen refuse, has been given.
From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by D'Anvers, N.
