Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An office in great houses where water was made ready in ewers for the service of guests, and where also the table-linen was kept. An office so called still exists in the royal household of England.
- noun The scullery of a religious house.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Enq. An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept.
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- noun historical, UK An
office or place ofhousehold service where theewers were kept.
Etymologies
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Examples
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As the server of the ewery pours water over our hands and pats them with the napkin, my husband says kindly, But I have distracted you from the great interest for my wife: the health of her son.
The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010
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Rebellion took place in 1794; or, (94) {B} {r} ewery.
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"I now garrantees," I think he sed, "that for ewery shilling you have given me no less than twenty-four pore little children shall have a good dinner; and so, as there is jest twenty of us, we shall have purwided a good dinner for no less than fore hunderd and hayty pore little hungry children!"
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 January 11, 1890 Various 1876
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And yet I'm told as there's a learned Gent as publishes a little book as tells you what the whether will be ewery day in the year, and he's werry offen rite.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 1, 1893 Various 1876
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So they all larfed at the funny idear, and they past the paper round, and ewery one on 'em sined his name and cashed up a shilling.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 January 11, 1890 Various 1876
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Ffirst, in servise of all thyngys in pantery and botery, and also for the ewery. ffirst, table-clothis, towelles longe and shorte, covertours [3] and napkyns, be ordeyned clenly, clene and redy accordyng to the tyme.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Problem is that almost ewery game crashes as soon as loading is complete and my computer restarts.
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Problem is that almost ewery game crashes as soon as loading is complete and my computer restarts.
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Problem is that almost ewery game crashes as soon as loading is complete and my computer restarts.
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(3a) a yeoman for the ewery; (4) a yeoman purveyor; (5) a master-cook, under-cooks, and three pastry-men; (6) a yeoman and groom in the scullery, one to be in the larder and slaughter-house;
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