pantry
Americannoun
plural
pantries-
a room or closet in which food, groceries, and other provisions, or silverware, dishes, etc., are kept.
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a room between the kitchen and dining room in which food is arranged for serving, glassware and dishes are stored, etc.
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food pantry. a shelter or other place where food is dispensed to people experiencing food insecurity, either as groceries or as meals.
noun
Etymology
Origin of pantry
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English panetrie, from Anglo-French; Old French paneterie “bread room,” equivalent to panet(er) “to bake bread” (derivative of pan “bread,” from Latin pānis ) + -erie noun suffix; -ery
Example Sentences
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Leah could see the tops of tombstones from her kitchen pantry.
From Literature
The hack itself refers to meals that are prepared with minimal effort, minimal clean up and convenient ingredients that are often readily available in one’s refrigerator and pantry.
From Salon
They can buy 10 of an item on sale because they have both the liquid capital and the physical space—large pantries or even second freezers—to store it.
An almost aggressively spiced medley: Italian breadcrumbs, Old Bay, thyme, oregano, garlic powder; a pantry symphony that bordered on excessive in the way only a ’90s “healthy” recipe could.
From Salon
That is prompting shoppers to delay restocking their pantries and pass on buying extra tubes of toothpaste when they see a promotion.
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