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    the servants' hall doubles as the place servants may spend their leisure hours and serves as both sitting room and dining room. Meals in the servants' hall...
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  • and those of the visitors. The hall boy also waited on more senior servants when they took their meals in the servants hall. He slept on a fold-down bed...
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    small windows of the servants’ bedrooms. These rooms which were entirely in main block of the house, and constituted distinct servants' quarters, were to...
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    and later for servants who finally achieved their own servants hall to eat in and servants’ bedrooms in attics or basements). The halls of late 17th,...
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    Civil service (redirect from Civil servants)
    public servants but not civil servants. Thus, in the UK, a civil servant is a public servant but a public servant is not necessarily a civil servant. The...
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    care of, and with the butler presided over dinner in the Servants' Hall. Unlike most other servants, she was addressed as Mrs regardless of her marital status...
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    employer, while she was addressed as "Miss" by junior servants or when visiting another servants' hall. A lady's maid's specific duties included helping her...
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    great hall was the largest room in castles and large houses, and where the servants usually slept. As more complex house plans developed, the hall remained...
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    offer "enclosed" rather than "open" lanais, sometimes meaning a large dining hall with a 'wall' of sliding glass doors. On The Golden Girls, the outdoor space...
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    grisailles by Van Dyck, and Breaking Cover by John Wootton. Once a servants' hall, located next to the kitchen, the armoury is now home to what many experts...
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