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scullery

/skuhl-uh-ree, skuhl-ree/US // ˈskʌl ə ri, ˈskʌl ri //UK // (ˈskʌlərɪ) //

洗手间,洗碗机,洗碗间,厨房

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural scul·ler·ies.Chiefly British.

    • : a small room or section of a pantry in which food is cleaned, trimmed, and cut into cooking portions before being sent to the kitchen.
    • : a small room or section of a pantry or kitchen in which cooking utensils are cleaned and stored.

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Examples

  • There were no scullery chores or sewing for this spirited redhead.

  • He took the things noiselessly into the kitchen, shut the door, and master of the kitchen and scullery washed up.

  • The scullery was cold, bare, and empty; more like a large prison cell than anything else.

  • These they put into a small bag, and mephisto went back through the scullery into the back garden and hid these spoons in a bush.

  • It appeared to consist of a living-room and a scullery, with a patch under the skeleton of a sort of penthouse at the back.

  • He knew—dead Ned seemed to tell him—that the wall between the living-room and the scullery might stand.