child of the kitchen
child of the kitchen noun: an unskilled kitchen worker assigned to menial tasks.
Noun
child of the kitchen (plural children of the kitchen)
- An unskilled kitchen worker assigned to menial tasks.
- Then in the hall kitchen, two clerks of the kitchen, a clerk comptroller, a surveyor of the dresser, a clerk of the spicery; all which together kept also a continual mess in the hall; also, in his hall kitchen, he had of master cooks two; and of other cooks, labourers, and children of the kitchen...1815, Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale, London and Middlesex: or, An historical, commercial, & descriptive survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain, page 370
- The master-cook began his career with apprenticeship at the lowest level, as a child of the kitchen, where he was subject to harsh discipline: as Olivier de la Marche points out, the master-cook's ladle was for hitting the children as well as for tasting sauces. Careers were often slow: in the...2014, Alan Davidson, Tom Jaine, The Oxford Companion to Food, page 216
Forms of child of the kitchen
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Questions about child of the kitchen
- What does child of the kitchen mean?
- Child of the kitchen means an unskilled kitchen worker assigned to menial tasks.
- What part of speech is child of the kitchen?
- Child of the kitchen is a noun.
- What is the plural of child of the kitchen?
- The plural of child of the kitchen is children of the kitchen.
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