单词 | scullery |
释义 | sculleryn. 1. a. The department of a household concerned with the care of the plates, dishes, and kitchen utensils. Also the room or rooms in which the work of this department is carried on. Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > place for keeping tableware sculleryc1440 eweryc1460 silver scullery1686 butler's pantry1721 pewtery1864 plate room1931 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > utility rooms house of officec1405 officesa1422 sculleryc1440 office-house1632 porch1878 utility room1953 utility area1969 utility1976 α. β. c1440 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 38 There is none that dyneth in their offyces, savinge onely the cookes, the scullery, the sawcerye [etc.].1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 179 [Given] to the kinges cookes white x.s. And to the skulery iij.s. iiij.d.1520 in W. Jerdan Rutland Papers (1842) 40 Item, the skullary and sawcery.a1555 H. Latimer Let. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1316/2 And as for suffrage,..I have lieffer haue the suffrage of Iacke of the skullerye.1583 in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) II. 402 The kitchin, with bylinge-house, scullery, pastry, and larders.1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect ii. vi. 67 Some of their scullerie having dressed these homely cates, presents it to his guests.a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 258 Holding it unbeseeming that the businesses of the scullery should be done in our parlour.1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) 537 Her Majesty's Household Officers [etc.]. Scullery.1330 Rolls of Parl. II. 33/1 Johan de la Squillerye.] ?1445 in J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. (1859) III. 78 Hath made..a new halle with a squillery, saucery and surveyng place, al of new. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xv He had been a turne broche and executed such vile officies in the kynges kytchyn & suyllarye for a space. 1576 in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) II. 43 1 Sergiant and Clerk of the Squillery. 1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) §53 The Esquillerye. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > place for keeping tableware sculleryc1440 eweryc1460 silver scullery1686 butler's pantry1721 pewtery1864 plate room1931 1686 London Gaz. No. 2149/4 Whoever shall give notice thereof unto any Officer of the King's Silver Scullery, shall have two Guinea's Reward. 1725 London Gaz. No. 6364/1 The Officers of the Board of Greencloth, or Silver Scullery. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > domestic scullery1659 house dust1834 trash1906 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα ii. xxxiii. 258 Besides the black pots, among which these doves [sc. ministers of the Church] must lie, I mean the soot and scullery of vulgar insolency..and fanatick contempt. 2. In modern use: A small room attached to a kitchen, in which the washing of dishes and other dirty work is done; a back kitchen. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > utility rooms > specific still1533 stillatory?1600 still-roomc1710 scullery1753 sink-room1823 wash-kitchen1838 wash-up1869 1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting i. i. 36 In the wash-house, or the scullery, performing the most laborious offices. 1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 332 Attached to the wards are attendants' rooms, scullery [etc.]. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. x. 229 Everything must have a name, even the slate that roofs your scullery. Compounds General attributive. scullery board n. ΚΠ 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xvi. f. 156 Wasshe all the grecy dysshes..: and set them clene vpon the squylery bourde. scullery boy n. scullery maid n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > maid or housemaid > kitchen-maid kitchen maid1551 slut1664 scullery maid1673 1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 217 [Directions] To Scullery-Maids in great Houses. scullery man n. ΚΠ 1595 in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1854) 7 210 The Scullerye man and his Office. scullery work n. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1440 |
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