scullion

Definition of scullionnext

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Noun
  • Hemings was brought to Paris from 1787 to 1789 to work as a servant and maid for Jefferson's household.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • Suddenly, the servant saw that the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around them – representing spiritual forces of divine protection.
    Liesl Ehmke, Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Palace maids stand around a plump woman, struggling to fasten a black belt sash around her waist.
    Lavender Au, The Dial, 30 June 2026
  • The series follows a woman named Emma over the course of more than six decades of her life, from the 1900s through the 1970s, working her way from impoverished maid to the world’s richest woman.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • The enterprising maidservant followed him into a shop.
    John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Julia, who was already pregnant with her and Henry’s second child, is forced to work as a maidservant for the reprehensible Lord Lovat (Tony Curran), who happens to be the father of Brian.
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Fifteen defendants have been sentenced in a domestic terrorism case tied to a July 4, 2025, protest at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in North Texas, where an Alvarado police lieutenant was shot and wounded.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2026
  • Five, including the company owner and a former Yolo County sheriff’s lieutenant, have been charged with murder.
    Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • Across all trades Pennsylvania infamously requires four journeymen per apprentice, as do Maryland and New Jersey.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Guests will hear the shuffle of San Francisco outside the windows, phones ringing, and the lingering voices of apprentices or other clients.
    Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • The handmaids’ crimson robes evolved into protest iconography around the world because the story captured fears about authoritarianism and gender more viscerally than overt political messaging ever could.
    Marc Adelman, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
  • Brush in hand, she is dwarfed by huge canvases within the paintings on which bare-breasted figures are in the process of emerging—a waiflike handmaiden hard at work at the feet of her American Helens of Troy.
    Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 23 May 2026
Noun
  • Bollo, the son of a domestic worker and a line cook, said he’s applied to work as a teaching assistant and graduate researcher, which would waive the cost of his tuition.
    Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • How — and to what extent — AI might reshape her profession remains to be seen, but jobs for administrative assistants and secretaries have been dwindling for decades.
    Claire Savage, Fortune, 5 July 2026
Noun
  • The main reason for that is that the Mexican’s key job is to be Pogačar’s final helper in the mountains, but this Tour debut has been a long time coming.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • That’s when the first in a series of helpers rushed to his aid.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
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“Scullion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scullion. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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