butler's pantry

butler's pantry
noun Date: 1757 a service room between kitchen and dining room

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  • butler's pantry — n. a serving pantry between the kitchen and the dining room …   English World dictionary

  • butler's pantry — noun : a pantry for the use of a butler : a service room between kitchen and dining room …   Useful english dictionary

  • butler's pantry — a service room between a kitchen and dining room, typically equipped with counters, a sink, and storage space for china and silver. [1810 20] * * * …   Universalium

  • butler's pantry — but′ler s pan try n. archit. a service room between a kitchen and dining room • Etymology: 1810–20 …   From formal English to slang

  • butler's pantry — /bʌtləz ˈpæntri/ (say butluhz pantree) noun a room between a kitchen and a dining room arranged for the storage of china and silverware and containing a sink …  

  • Pantry — A pantry is a room where food, provisions or dishes are stored and served in an ancillary capacity to the kitchen. The derivation of the word is from the same source as the Old French term paneterie ; that is from pain , the French form of the… …   Wikipedia

  • butler — [but′lər] n. [ME boteler < OFr bouteillier, cupbearer < bouteille,BOTTLE1] a manservant, now usually the head servant of a household, in charge of wines, pantry, table silver, etc …   English World dictionary

  • Butler — This famous aristocratic surname is of Norman French origins, and is one of the very few to be accepted as being pre 1066 in origin and recording, and even rarer still to be recorded in France itself. It is in a sense job descriptive, deriving… …   Surnames reference

  • butler'spantry — but·ler s pantry (bŭtʹlərz) n. A serving and storage room between a kitchen and dining room. * * * …   Universalium

  • butler — The head of the servants in a household; the man in charge of the pantry and wine cellar. See botiler of the king …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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