pantry

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Forty-three-year-old Katherine Walker of Rockford said the pantry is a lifesaver.

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  1. noun A small room or closet, usually off a kitchen, where food, tableware, linens, and similar items are stored.
  2. noun A small room used for the preparation of cold foods.

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  • The conversation he had just overheard in the pantry was a case in point. —  THE WIDOW’S KISS
  • Oliver said donations to the pantry and to the Houston Food Bank are incredible, and the money the pantry has been able to save by getting food from the food bank is astounding. —  The Facts: News
  • At one end is a bay window with room for a breakfast table, and along one wall next to the pantry is the double door laundry closet, complete with a new modern sizeable washer and dryer.
  • Relationships on alert: Robert and Kitty, who must survive moving out of her mom's house and meeting Robert's several hundred eccentric relatives; Tommy and Julia, who is staying home popping pills instead of attending family events; Jason and Kevin, who's shocked to find out the guy he just sucked face with in the pantry is a minister.
  • The immediate problem for the pantry is that it has no access to the old organization's bank accounts, post office box and other financial information, which are in the hands of the DiGuilios. —  The Patriot Ledger Home RSS
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  1. Middle English pantrie, from Old French paneterie, bread-closet, from panetier, pantry servant, from pan, bread, from Latin pānis; see pā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English pantrie, pantrye, panetrie, from French paneterie (= Spanish paneteria = Italian panettieria), from Middle Latin panetaria, office of a pantler, from paneta, a baker, from Latin panis, bread: see panter, pantler.
 

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