stillroom

[ stil-room, -room ]

noun

1. (in a large house) a room for distilling or for the preparation of special foods and drinks.
2. a room off a kitchen for making tea, coffee, etc., and for storing liquors, tea, preserves, jams, wine, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stillroom¹

First recorded in 1700–10; still ² + room

Example Sentences

Rose-water, elder-flower water, and all stillroom mysteries found an expert in her, and she even concocted mead from an old recipe.

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Valentine soon tired of so much pastoral exercise and departed to St. Germain's, leaving young Charles in the care of an old stillroom maid, now a prosperous farmer's wife.

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It was perhaps because she was conscious that Martha was peeping at her through the stillroom window that she began to whistle.

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The country gentleman of that age talked like "the most ignorant clown"; his wife and daughter were in taste "below a stillroom maid of the present day."

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Tristram, she knew, loved her stillroom maid's brown bread and butter.

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