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scullion
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synonyms: scullery maid, malkin ???
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Definition:Defn: A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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She spoke with the imperious curtness of a princess of the Middle Ages giving instructions to one of the scullions or scurvy knaves on her payroll,
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.15 (1971)
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The housekeeper, the old nurse, the cooks, coachmen, maids, footmen, postilions, and scullions stood at the gate,
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 11 (Book Eleven)
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And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion!
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Françoise, a colonel with all the forces of nature for her subalterns, as in the fairy-tales where giants hire themselves out as scullions, would be stirring the coals, putting the potatoes to steam, and, at the right moment, finishing over the fire those culinary masterpieces which had been first got ready in some of the great array of vessels,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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