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
Of course, that life-changing event ends quite differently than the one remembered by a generation raised on Lesley Ann Warren mooning and crooning in her attractively appointed scullery.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
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
“The pig-boy, the scullery maid—I do not see the dreamer.”
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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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 Maclaren, Alexander
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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher
He next went into the kitchen and the sculleries and locked the outer doors in that quarter.
From The Lion's Share by Bennett, Arnold
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
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