scullery

From Anglo-Norman squillerie, from Old French escuelerie (“office of the servant in charge of plates”), from escuele (“bowl, dish”), from Latin scutella.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskʌləɹi/

scullery (plural sculleries)

1. (historical) A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.
   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.

• scullery maid