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PANTRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small storeroom for storing foods or wines
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pantry" is a kind of...):
storage room; storeroom; stowage (a room in which things are stored)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pantry"):
still room; stillroom (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)
Context examples:
The kitchen, the butler's pantry, the servants' hall, the entrance hall, were equally alive; and the saloons were only left void and still when the blue sky and halcyon sunshine of the genial spring weather called their occupants out into the grounds.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He took that off, too, when it was done with; cleared the table; piled everything on the dumb-waiter; gave us our wine-glasses; and, of his own accord, wheeled the dumb-waiter into the pantry.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was the pantry.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You can crawl through the drain into the kitchen and then into the pantry, and there you will find cakes, ham, beef, cold chicken, roast pig, apple-dumplings, and everything that your heart can wish.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
There was a gridiron in the pantry, on which my morning rasher of bacon was cooked.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I showed him over the establishment, not omitting the pantry, with no little pride, and he commended it highly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And of this, I noticed—the women-servants in the household were so intuitively conscious, that they always did such work themselves, and generally while he read the paper by the pantry fire.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At about this time, too, I made three discoveries: first, that Mrs. Crupp was a martyr to a curious disorder called the spazzums, which was generally accompanied with inflammation of the nose, and required to be constantly treated with peppermint; secondly, that something peculiar in the temperature of my pantry, made the brandy-bottles burst; thirdly, that I was alone in the world, and much given to record that circumstance in fragments of English versification.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
For being of an inquisitive disposition, and unable to confine herself (as her positive instructions were) to the pantry, she was constantly peering in at us, and constantly imagining herself detected; in which belief, she several times retired upon the plates (with which she had carefully paved the floor), and did a great deal of destruction.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As I was delighted with the place, my aunt and Mrs. Crupp withdrew into the pantry to discuss the terms, while I remained on the sitting-room sofa, hardly daring to think it possible that I could be destined to live in such a noble residence.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
