scullery
noun /ˈskʌləri/
/ˈskʌləri/
(plural sculleries)
- a small room next to the kitchen in an old house, originally used for washing dishes, etc.Oxford Collocations DictionaryScullery is used before these nouns:
- maid
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting the department of a household concerned with kitchen utensils): from Old French escuelerie, from escuele ‘dish’, from Latin scutella ‘salver’, diminutive of scutra ‘wooden platter’.