sink-room

I happened one day to be employed in the back kitchen, or what they termed the sink-room, and I soon became aware that I was the subject of conversation by the family in the room adjoining.

Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past

She and Frederick stopped in the sink-room to wash their hands before going in to dinner.

A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony Alice Turner Curtis 1912

Anne followed Rose down the stairs and into the sink-room, where Rose began to scour her face vigorously.

A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony Alice Turner Curtis 1912

Rose pleasantly, and left Anne alone in the little square room called the "sink-room," because of two sinks near the one window which overlooked the green yard at the back of the house.

A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony Alice Turner Curtis 1912

A kitchen grew out on another side, and out of the kitchen a sink-room, and out of the sink-room a wood-house, and out of the wood-house a carriage-house, and so on with a gradually lessening succession of out-buildings.

Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives 1878

Did the Widow Brown contemplate turning her back buttery into a sink-room, she forthwith went over to the nearest matrons of her vicinity, and announced that she was "talkin 'about movin' her sink," and the movement in all its branches and bearings was discussed in private session.

Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives 1878

As soon as supper was over that night, Miss Asphyxia seized upon the child, and, taking her to a tub in the sink-room, proceeded to divest her of her garments and subject her to a most thorough ablution.

Oldtown Folks 1869

"Laws a-massy, 'Liakim!" said my grandmother, whose ears were startled by a peculiar hissing sound in the sink-room, which caused her to spring actively in that direction.

Oldtown Folks 1869

"Yes, come in," she said, opening the door of a small ground-floor bedroom that adjoined the apartment known in New England houses as the sink-room, and showing them a plain bed.

Oldtown Folks 1869

We would spring from the bed and hurry on our clothes, buttoning them with fingers numb with cold, and run down to the back sink-room, where, in water that flew off in icy spatters, we performed our morning ablutions, refreshing our faces and hands by a brisk rub upon a coarse rolling-towel of brown homespun linen.

Oldtown Folks 1869