a small room next to the kitchen in an old house, originally used for washing dishes, etc. 洗涤室(老房子中设在厨房旁,洗涤餐具用) Oxford Collocations DictionaryScullery is used before these nouns:- maid
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting the department of a household concerned with kitchen utensils): from Old French escuelerie, from escuele ‘dish’, from Latin scutella ‘salver’, diminutive of scutra ‘wooden platter’.