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scullery

[skuhl-uh-ree, skuhl-ree] / ˈskʌl ə ri, ˈskʌl ri /
NOUN
galley
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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

A cruel stepmother reduces her dead husband’s only child to the role of scullery maid, but a kindly beggar woman and some helpful mice bring about a change in the young woman’s fortunes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2019

According to the scullery maid, Bibi’s plates were not washed with the others.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

How often have I had to tell you, Timmy, not to go into other people's kitchens and sculleries?

From What Timmy Did by Marie Belloc Lowndes

There are very few establishments large enough to indulge in the luxury of a servants'-hall, and sculleries and pantries are much smaller than in England.

From Town Life in Australia by Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny

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

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




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