kitchener
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See also: Kitchener
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English kichenere, kychynnere, equivalent to kitchen + -er.
Noun
[edit]kitchener (plural kitcheners)
- (obsolete) A kitchen servant; a cook.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Give Us Arms”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (The Third Estate), page 179:
- The industry of all crafts has paused;—except it be the smith's, fiercely hammering pikes; and, in a faint degree, the kitchener's, cooking offhand victuals; for bouche va toujours [people need to eat].
- (obsolete) A stove for cooking.
References
[edit]- “kitchener”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.