Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An apartment for distilling; a domestic laboratory.
- n. A room connected, with the kitchen, where coffee, tea, and the like are made, and the finer articles supplied to the table are made, stored, and prepared for use.
Wiktionary
- n. A room containing a still (for distillation)
- n. A pantry adjoining a kitchen where drinks etc were stored or prepared
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A room for distilling.
- n. engraving An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a pantry or storeroom connected with the kitchen (especially in a large house) for preparing tea and beverages and for storing liquors and preserves and tea etc
- n. a pantry or storeroom connected with the kitchen (especially in a large house) for preparing tea and beverages and for storing liquors and preserves and tea etc
Examples
“Such women spent hours every day in their "stillroom" working up attempts to cure what ailed the people under their authority.”
“I tried every remedy Mother had taught me in the stillroom, but nothing seemed to help.”
“Mother insisted the stillroom be kept clean and neat.”
“Just as I finished the straining, Matthew Rowlett came into the stillroom with a letter that had just arrived for Mother.”
“To distract me, she kept Kate and me busy in the stillroom, teaching us how to make herbal remedies and preventives.”
“Ceramic pots covered with thin goatskin, glass and horn containers plugged with stopples, and even a few imported stoneware jugs with parchment tied over their mouths to keep the contents dry filled the stillroom shelves.”
“But the liquid she had skimmed all of one long, hot day had been colored and flavored and left to set in the stillroom.”
“It began to rain lightly, drops spattering the long casements, but a small fire was burning on the stillroom hearth, and it was very cozy.”
“The bedroom in front also was vacant, but I heard a faint shuffling noise from the stillroom across the landing.”
“I had made a short detour to Brother Ambrose's stillroom on the way to my chamber.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stillroom’.
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extra room
An add-on to Trivet's list elbow room and Lampbane's list 2BDRM W/VU that tries not to duplicate Trivet's and Lampbane's existing rooms. Virtual, allegorical and proverbial rooms accepted.
scullery, suite, porch, screened porch, breakfast room, atheneum, attic, hall, dressing room, passageway, corridor, fusuma and 126 more...
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Storage Facilities
bankshall, storehouse, granary, cornhouse, garner, grange, bodega, repository, sceuophylacium, skeuophylakion, bookhouse, reliquary and 100 more...
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fbharjo Is there still room? Nov 14, 2010