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Stillroom   Listen
noun
Stillroom  n.  
1.
A room for distilling.
2.
An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. (Eng.) "Floors are rubbed bright,... stillroom and kitchen cleared for action."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Stillroom" Quotes from Famous Books



... nightfall, nor was there so much as a carpet in the castle. Odo's grandmother, the old Marchioness, a heavy woman who would doubtless have enjoyed her ease in a cushioned seat, was afoot all day attending to her household; for besides the dairy and the bakehouse and the stillroom where fruits were stewed and pastes prepared, there was the great spinning-room full of distaffs and looms, where the women spun and wove all the linen used in the castle and the coarse stuffs worn by its ...
— The Valley of Decision • Edith Wharton



Words linked to "Stillroom" :   still room, pantry



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