Noun

(en noun)

A room or area for preparing food.

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, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}

An admixture of languages spoken to convey meaning between non-native speakers.

* 1885 , , (w, King Solomon's Mines) ,

Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough.

(African American Vernacular English) The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.

Cuisine.

(music) The percussion section of an orchestra.

* 1981 , Norman Del Mar, Anatomy of the Orchestra ,

For obvious reasons the percussion is normally arranged along the back of the platform, whether centrally or to one side, and sometimes also in two tiers, the heavy, noisier instruments behind, and the pitched, agile instruments such as vibraphone, marimba, etc. in front. An outstanding exception, however, exists in Roberto Gerhard's Epithalamion where the composer expressly desired that the all-important kitchen department be spread out in front of the strings and hence nearest the audience.

(dated) A utensil for roasting meat.

a tin kitchen

Noun

(en noun)

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:when I came to man's estate

*(Bible), (w) xii. 16

*:Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate .

(label) Status, rank.

*(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)

*:God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.

(label) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions.

(label) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman.

*:

*:And anone came oute of a chamber to hym the fayrest lady that euer he sawe & more rycher bysene than euer he sawe Quene Gueneuer or ony other estat Lo sayd they syre Bors here is the lady vnto whome we owe alle oure seruyse / and I trowe she be the rychest lady and the fayrest of alle the world

*(Bible), (w) vi. 21

*:Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.

*(w) (1775-1864)

*:She's a duchess, a great estate .

(label) A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights ((Estates of the realm)).

*1992 , (Hilary Mantel), (A Place of Greater Safety) , Harper Perennial 2007, p.115:

*:I am afraid that some of the nobles who are campaigning for it simply want to use the Estates to cut down the King's power and increase their own.

*2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p.202:

*:The three estates of feudal lords, clergy and royal officers met in separate chambers, and exercised an advisory role.

(label) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land.

An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership.

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The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.

(label) A housing estate.

(label) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:I call matters of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoeverconcerneth manifestly any great portion of people.