Definitions for still room
still room

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. stillroom, still roomnoun

   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

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1. Still room

   The still room is a distillery room found in most great houses, castles or large establishments throughout Europe dating back at least to medieval times.

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1. Still room

   The still room is a distillery room found in most great houses, castles or large establishments throughout Europe dating back at least to medieval times. The lady of the house was in charge of the room, where medicines were prepared, cosmetics and many home cleaning products created, and home-brewed beer or wine was often made. Herbs from the kitchen garden and surrounding countryside were processed into what today we call essential oils, and infused or distilled, or brewed as required to make rose water, lavender water, peppermint based ointments, soaps, furniture polishes and a wide variety of medicines. It was a working room: part science lab, part infirmary and part kitchen. In later years, as doctors & apothecaries became more widely spread and the products of the still room became commercially available, the still room became increasingly an adjunct of the kitchen. The use of still room devolved to making only jams, jellies, home-brewed beverages and as a store room for perishables such as cakes. Originally, the still room was a very important part of the household, run by the lady of the house, and used to teach her daughters and wards some of the skills needed to run their own homes in order to make them more marriageable by having those skills. As practical skills fell out fashion for high born women, the still room became the province first of poor dependent relations, then of housekeepers or cooks. The still room was later staffed by the still room maid.

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How to pronounce still room?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

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   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of still room in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of still room in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of still room in a Sentence

1. Jorge Hereda:

   There is still room for a bank solely controlled by the government in our banking market, yes I think so.

2. Michael Strain:

   There is still room for stimulus without having to worry about inflation taking off.

3. Frank Harris:

   There's been progress against drunken driving, but there's still room for improvement.

4. Outgoing Chief Executive Hereda:

   My personal opinion? I am against it, there's still room for a fully-owned state bank in Brazil and the need for a public policy agent to preserve equilibrium in the system is huge.

5. Dominic Bunning:

   South Africa still has a lot of challenges and there is the Fitch rating decision to come this month, but they haven't been downgraded ... cyclically there is still room for the rand to do a bit better.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=still room
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_Room
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=still room