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larder
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synonyms: buttery ???
tags: [architecture] [dated]
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Definition:a room or large cupboard for storing food
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I at last reached the larder; there I took possession of a cold chicken,
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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On reaching home at 1.30 a.m. I was so hungry that I had to go down into the larder and find food for myself. Thereby I learnt a lot about my own house that was previously quite unknown to me.
Arnold Bennett. Journal 1929 (1930)
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"There is plenty of food, sir—of a tinned variety. The larder is very well stocked. [...]"
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.96 (1939)
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the paralysed insect, beside which her egg is laid, will furnish the larva, when it is hatched, with a tamed and inoffensive quarry, incapable either of flight or of resistance, but perfectly fresh for the larder:
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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They built a wall about themselves so they were the castle-keeps, and full guardians of their larder of secrets.
V.C. Andrews. Flowers in the Attic, p.24 (1979)
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‘there is really not a scrap of anything in the larder. I was accustomed to speak of the larder when I lived with papa and mama, and I use the word almost unconsciously. What I mean to express is, that there is nothing to eat in the house.’
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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