英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈskʌləɹi/

名詞

scullery (複数形 sculleries)

1. (archaic) 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 […], London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

     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.

派生語

• scullery girl, scullery maid, sculleryman

関連する語

• scour, washery

参考

• backhouse (sometimes synonymous)
• washhouse