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back-kitchen
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synonyms: scullery ???
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Definition:a scullery, which is a small room where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen where the prep work is done
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on the very day of his return, he told Joseph and me we must thenceforth quarter ourselves in the back-kitchen, and leave the house for him.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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When, under cover of the night, I flew to Miss Mills, whom I saw by stealth in a back kitchen where there was a mangle, and implored Miss Mills to interpose between us and avert insanity.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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Think of Kit Downes, uncle, who lives with his wife and seven children in a house with one sitting room and one bedroom hardly larger than this table!—and those poor Dagleys, in their tumble-down farmhouse, where they live in the back kitchen and leave the other rooms to the rats!
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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