(historical, UK) An office or place of household service where the ewers and table linen were kept.
(historical, UK) An office or place of household service where the ewers and table linen were kept.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(Scotland, archaic) A cupboard or wardrobe.
(India, historical) A kitchen or room for cookery.
(US) A warehouse for the aging of whiskey.
(UK, North American) A small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to shelf-stable food storage or storing kitchenware, like a larder, but smaller.
(chiefly, historical, countable) A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc.