Noun

(en noun)

*{{quote-book, year=1598, author=Richard Hakluyt, title=The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I., chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=There is a fountaine of hot burning water with the which they heate the Church of the Monastery and the Fryers chambers, it commeth also into the kitchin so boyling hot, that they vse no other fire to dresse their meate: and putting their breade into brasse pots without any water, it doth bake as it were in an hot ouen. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1665-1676, author=Sir John Lauder, title=Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=From that he led me to their kitchin ; wheir ware 3 spits full of meat rosting (sometymes they have 7 when the Colledge is full). }}

Noun

(en noun)

A room or area for preparing food.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, 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