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
One day she fell into conversation with a street musician after giving him some money and he encouraged her to follow his example, saying it would likely pay more than her scullery job.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
Mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, scullery maid Ella finally meets her prince.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2019
“That’s only Cinders, the scullery maid,” she said.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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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 Alexander Maclaren
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
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
Your deeds got into extemporised strong-rooms made of kitchens and sculleries, and fretted all the fat out of their parchments into the banking-house air.
From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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