scullery

"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

Back kitchens come with as many names as they do appliances: the dirty kitchen, the messy kitchen, the prep kitchen, the working kitchen and the scullery kitchen, to name a few.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2022

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

They ran through the echoing hall, along the corridor and into the kitchen, through the scullery, and into a cobbled court beyond it.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

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

Let all the offices, whence any noise or smell can arise, be perfectly detached from the dwelling part of the mansion:—such as the kitchens, sculleries, laundries, &c.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

They passed through the hall; thence down a stone stairway into an ample vaulted kitchen, and thence along a slate-flagged corridor flanked by sculleries, larders and other kitchen offices.

From News from the Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

We then inspect the offices for the Clerk of the Course himself; wine-cellars, beer-cellars, larders, sculleries, and kitchens, all as gigantically appointed, and as copiously furnished as if they formed part of an ogre's castle.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

She was diminutive and flat-chested; her skin was sallow from life-long confinement in basement sculleries and the atmosphere of the Bloomsbury boarding-house.

From A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions by Bartimeus