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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

A kitchen servant; a cook.

Carlyle.

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Kitchener World War I recruitment poster

Kitchener

A surname.
A British earldom
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British field marshal in the First World War

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kitchener ‎(plural kitcheners)

(obsolete) A kitchen servant; a cook.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
  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 off-hand victuals; for bouche va toujours [people need to eat].